Example sentences of "at you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 2 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I could look at you across a room full of people , and still make you weak with longing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
| 7 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was taken by the drama of it — one mistake , and somebody 's at you with a meat cleaver . |
| 10 | And for all of us , the short , sharp shock of illogical fear ( the brakes temporarily fail on your car , or someone comes at you with a knife ) is helpful . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 15 | The speed skaters go about half that speed , but danger slides at you from every corner . |
| 16 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
| 19 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
| 23 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 25 | who found me staring at you in a store |
| 26 | its going to come round at you in a minute , so I 'll talk about it until it gets to you , erm , it delighted my children this particular painting , erm and I decided to put my sort of analytical approach to one side erm and do something with that later , so this poem is from my , my children 's point of view and one of the things that are very interested , they were really worried , that , erm , I think it marks the height of the table and the fact that the puppies might fall off and do themselves some harm , that , I 'll read it while its going round and then I can see then , that , so this is , ok , from my children 's point of view this poem , its called Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 27 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 28 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |