Example sentences of "[verb] at us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 2 | I think he must have just looked at us as guys who could take care of themselves , no problem . ’ |
| 3 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 4 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 5 | The guide came over , shouting at us in his strange dialect . |
| 6 | He was given lots of cuddles because he kept looking at us as if to say ‘ What has happened to me ? ’ ‘ |
| 7 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 8 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 9 | We felt them looking at us from behind the lace and from the shadowy hallways , peering through their caterpillar curtains at these strangers with clean shoes and light , impractical clothes . |
| 10 | Our clothes came at us from all over the room . |
| 11 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 12 | Pay what get , cost the earth , I mean look at us at . . |
| 13 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 14 | A squatting beggar wailed at us from his place beside an open sewer . |
| 15 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 16 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 17 | Who stare at us with incredulous scorn . |
| 18 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 19 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 20 | And peeps at us from eyes of smelly tramps . |
| 21 | In and out , on and off , they 're coming at us from all sides . |
| 22 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
| 23 | A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier . |
| 24 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 25 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 26 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 27 | The rest of the group stared at us like a hanging jury before sentence is passed . |
| 28 | THE shepherd stared at us in disbelief . |
| 29 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |
| 30 | ’ Catesby stared at us from red-rimmed eyes . |