Example sentences of "stare [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 2 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 3 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 4 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 5 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 6 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 7 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 8 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 9 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 10 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 11 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 12 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 13 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 14 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 15 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 16 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 17 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 18 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 19 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |
| 20 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 21 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
| 22 | McKitrick 's house lounged on a maple-strewn ridge , sleek and contemporary , with a gable end sporting one huge circular window that stared down at her like an unblinking eye . |
| 23 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 24 | He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face . |
| 25 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 26 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 27 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 28 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 29 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 30 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |