Example sentences of "stare [adv] at [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 2 | ‘ I tell you what I really do n't like , ’ he says , staring down at the club floor below , ‘ I do n't like if I do n't know who are friends and who are enemies . |
| 3 | Buckingham sat , hands together , staring down at the table top , his face registering surprise and shock at Sir John 's words . |
| 4 | He closed the book and lay down on the bunk , staring up at the bulge Pete made . |
| 5 | Once more on his feet and staring up at the bell rope , Jasper said , ‘ D' you know what I 'd like ? |
| 6 | Hypnotists now often suggest that the subject focuses his attention by staring fixedly at a drawing pin on the wall , while telling him in rather monotonous tones that he is becoming more relaxed and sleepy . |
| 7 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 8 | I funny staring back at the car park , the car park , and the |
| 9 | SHe 'd found him in his workroom , staring moodily at the monitor screen . |
| 10 | He leaned against it , staring across at the priory wall , shuddering when he remembered how Gaveston 's dogs had nearly tore him to pieces . |
| 11 | Benjamin stopped for a while , staring across at the forest edge . |
| 12 | ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers . |
| 13 | Lissa adjusted her foothold on the sloping riverbank and stared crossly at the cabin cruiser moored on the gently rippling water . |
| 14 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 15 | Then he walked over to the window and stared down at the chess board . |
| 16 | Athelstan went over to the window and stared down at the chess table . |
| 17 | Benjamin stared down at the table top . |
| 18 | Christine stared down at the executive transporter bay from an observation gallery thirty metres above the floor . |
| 19 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 20 | She stood with her hands clasped tightly together and stared frantically at the curtain rail , her face racked with pain . |
| 21 | She stared stoically at the tapestry wall-hanging in front of her . |
| 22 | So they both stared religiously at the ground pink-faced . |
| 23 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 24 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |