Example sentences of "stare [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Suddenly he was in the enemy 's trench and staring down into a young German 's eyes , a terrified boy even younger than himself . |
| 5 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Evans played with a pencil as he leaned over his desk , staring at Morgan , who stared back with a bleak expression . |
| 8 | The young woman just stared back like a frightened rabbit . |
| 9 | 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 . |