Example sentences of "at us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | squinting at us with unspeakable pleasure , |
| 4 | Who stare at us with incredulous scorn . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 7 | Fulmars cackle beneath the waving blue heads of sheepsbit and several downy young peer at us with fathomless black eyes . |
| 8 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 9 | A nesting cormorant glared at us with green eyes , its black feathers glossed with a purple sheen . |
| 10 | He stares out at us with steely blue eyes , his hair neatly twisted into one dark curl on his forehead ; he 's sporting a smart black frock-coat with a neatly-buttoned waistcoat and a full cravat anchored down with an ornate jewelled pin and chain . |
| 11 | So Julie smiled at us , in a half-proud , half-scared sort of way , that made her look more as if she was going to burst into tears , and marched up the street , pigtails bobbing , and over the main road to the bus-stop , and stood there gazing across at us with blank eyes while the traffic trundled backwards and forwards between us . |
| 12 | The storm theme [ 11 ] hurls the minor second at us on various levels , but most powerfully on the root note E flat , suggesting the Phrygian mode ( i.e. E to E on the white notes of the piano , transposed down a semitone ) . |
| 13 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 14 | Fuck it , we thought , it 's the first time Malcolm 's splashed out and Vivienne 's coming on at us like some kind of school maam , and Malcolm was n't bothered , he was past caring . |
| 15 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 16 | ’ Catesby stared at us from red-rimmed eyes . |
| 17 | In and out , on and off , they 're coming at us from all sides . |
| 18 | ‘ Christ , I ask for something positive and they come shooting at us from all angles . |
| 19 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 20 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |