Example sentences of "stare [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 2 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 3 | Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor . |
| 4 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 5 | Suddenly he was in the enemy 's trench and staring down into a young German 's eyes , a terrified boy even younger than himself . |
| 6 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 7 | He was staring downwards with a fierce grin , an expression that did n't change as he turned and saw Ace . |
| 8 | Then , while the pirates and Famlio were staring piercingly at a new contingent of roisterers coming in , I decided to move . |
| 9 | Benny was staring intently at a large worm wriggling on the pile of damp earth . |
| 10 | Britta stood apart , staring unseeingly at a three-dimensional display of the space station . |
| 11 | Whereas Elizabeth was composed , though pale , Victor became increasingly nervous , rubbing his forehead and his lips with a handkerchief , hiding his eyes in his palms , staring about in a distraught fashion . |
| 12 | She stood immobile , staring ahead with a peculiar intensity . |
| 13 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 14 | Helen stared doggedly at a Swiss cheese plant . |
| 15 | Evans played with a pencil as he leaned over his desk , staring at Morgan , who stared back with a bleak expression . |
| 16 | The young woman just stared back like a frightened rabbit . |
| 17 | His brown , nearly auburn hair clung to his scalp as if with misery , sad eyes stared out of a freckled face , his hands were clenched tight . |
| 18 | He did n't look at the boy but stared instead at a potted palm withering in its tub beside the grand piano on the rostrum . |