Example sentences of "you [verb] at [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 mum goes , do n't you swear at her no swearing thank you , and it 's like she hates swearing , it 's like , not even swearing cows and animals
2 If you look at it every ten minutes you notice it 's
3 I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then .
4 That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath .
5 Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets .
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