Example sentences of "stare back at [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 5 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 6 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 7 | 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 . |