Example sentences of "stare at [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 13 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 14 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 15 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
| 16 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 19 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 20 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 21 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |