Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 5 | I 'd like to stay here looking at you for ever , but I must stop acting now . ’ |
| 6 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 7 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 8 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah , getting at you for ? |
| 12 | What she getting at you for ? |
| 13 | who found me staring at you in a store |
| 14 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
| 15 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 16 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
| 17 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 18 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 19 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 20 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 21 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 23 | To look across and see that gorgeous smile , find those brilliant eyes burning at you with desire and love , instead of derision and mockery . |