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Example sentences of "[verb] at you [prep] " in BNC.

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1	He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) .
2	He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough .
3	‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next .
4	She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock .
5	Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know .
6	After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’
7	He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you .
8	I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed .
9	He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you .
10	I 'd like to stay here looking at you for ever , but I must stop acting now . ’
11	Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself .
12	‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says .
13	At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester .
14	People look at you as if you 'd said you had plague .
15	Er they take you into the office , tell you to sit down , and they look at you as if you 're a little schoolboy .
16	And , and look at you as if you 're an old fogey if you say tuppence I expect .
17	She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say .
18	‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’
19	‘ I could look at you across a room full of people , and still make you weak with longing . ’
20	And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles .
21	It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows .
22	‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’
23	He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him .
24	‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate .
25	Strange , thought Bramble , that such an apparently dithery old lady should be able to look at you like that .
26	Then , with sound like a rippling machine gun , arms outstretched and a face-splitting smile , you speed spectacularly towards the audience , a different light flashing magically as your heels lightly clip each step.The effect is stunning , like somebody racing at you on an escalator only much , much better .
27	Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest .
28	He stares at you in raptures .
29	In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived .
30	As you come back from Brouage towards St Jean-d'Angely — on the D18 via the canalside village of Pont-l'Abbe-d'Arnoult , with a lovely Romanesque church faade — a sign at the junction of the D122 points you to the chateau whose improbably perfect lake and gardens stare at you from posters throughout the region : La Roche Courbon .