Example sentences of "[verb] at you from " in BNC.
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1 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
2 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The cabinet is made from chipboard , with rugged overriders on each corner , while the 8 inch speaker peeps at you from behind a sort of nylon fabric . |
8 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
9 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
10 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
11 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
12 | They 'd laugh at you from here to Bergen . |
13 | You 're confined to this place , ’ he waves his gangly arm around his tiny office in the Lords one Wednesday afternoon , ‘ stuff flies at you from left , right and centre , ’ he snorts , as his forehead furrows . |
14 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |
15 | The speed skaters go about half that speed , but danger slides at you from every corner . |