Example sentences of "stare back at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
5 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
9 | Ronni stared back at her with a sense of helpless inevitability , suddenly , with a shiver , putting two and two together . |
10 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
11 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
12 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
13 | 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 . |