Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 4 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 5 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 6 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 7 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 8 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
| 9 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |