Example sentences of "stare at [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
2 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
3 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
4 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
5 | Staring at myself in the mirror . |
6 | I flush the lot down the toilet , staring at myself in the mirror , trembling . |
7 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
8 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
9 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
10 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
11 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
12 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
13 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
14 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
15 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
16 | He was wearing a tin helmet and staring at something on the wall , a picture . |
17 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
18 | And she 's sitting in a peculiar way , staring at herself in the mirror . ’ |
19 | Dawn Allenby was standing in her coat and headscarf staring at herself in the mirror . |
20 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
21 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
22 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
23 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
24 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
25 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
26 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
27 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
28 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
29 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
30 | She stared at herself in the mirror . |