Example sentences of "stare [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rachel sat there alone , staring blankly at the turquoise sea as it rippled softly on white sand . |
| 32 | Staring blindly at the strong column of his throat , she sniffed . |
| 33 | After a while she gave up , and left him sitting there , staring blindly into an unimaginable future . |
| 34 | Ashi stared dumbly at the misty figure behind the blinding aureole . |
| 35 | Helen stared doggedly at a Swiss cheese plant . |
| 36 | Benin moved to the writing desk and stared absently at the framed family photograph then turned back to Werner . |
| 37 | He stared mournfully at the bright strip which appeared to float in the cold air over the small table . |
| 38 | Shocked , she stared disbelievingly at the receding back of Doctor Anderson , and wondered what had been contained in the message that had made a member of the staff drop everything in such an unprofessional way . |
| 39 | Evelyn trailed back into the scutching room and stared hopelessly at the huge basket . |
| 40 | As she said it , she stared fixedly at the shredded corner of her notepad and wished vainly , but with all her heart , that it were true . |
| 41 | The men , their faces sallow in the small light of the cabriolet 's twin lamps , stared reproachfully at the wealthy officer whose carriage clipped by so smartly behind its matched pair of bays . |
| 42 | In the warm and cosy sitting-room Fred Bradley put down the evening paper and stared moodily into the bright fire . |
| 43 | She breathed in deeply , stared intently at the intricate pattern on the carpet , then looked up again . |
| 44 | He settled by the window and stared across at the red brick Communist club beyond the budding trees . |
| 45 | Peter Carson stared hard at the open copy of The Cookery Year on the work surface before him . |
| 46 | Miss Honey stared hard into the other woman 's wet grey eyes , and she allowed the silence to hang in the air until Mrs Wormwood became uncomfortable . |
| 47 | Lt. Mikhail Vologsky stared again at the buff-coloured application form , so meticulously filled out , and so callously rejected . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Hell was being without God , I thought , but I said nothing , just stared instead at the white wash of cabin light on the rushing water , and I wondered why some people could take cocaine and just walk away from it , while others ended up in hell , or in a peep-show which was probably the same thing . |
| 50 | Rincewind stared muzzily at the recumbent tourist . |
| 51 | ‘ Go on where ? ’ she asked bitterly as she stared blindly through the mud-spattered windscreen . |
| 52 | The Marshal stared expressionlessly at the blushing face and then at the star on the young man 's epaulette . |
| 53 | De Craon stared bleakly at the English clerk and shrugged to show his unease . |
| 54 | Remembering just in time that this heartless cynic was responsible for getting her out of the clutches of the Gibraltar Police and Customs Service , Polly managed to bite back the caustic retort trembling on the tip of her tongue and stared blankly at the vast selection of starters and main courses . |
| 55 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |