Example sentences of "stare [adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 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 .
4 He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She sat very still , staring ahead of her into the gathering darkness .
9 A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles .
10 Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab .
11 ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement .
12 His own address stared up at him in the same black hand
13 Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay .
14 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 .
15 I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror .
16 Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face .
17 Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast .
18 Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues .
19 Sabine stared ahead of her through the windscreen .
20 Stiff and cold , she stared bleakly before her as the events of yesterday rushed into her mind .
21 Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose .
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