Example sentences of "stare at the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women clucked and tutted as one by one they turned to stare at the tall fourteen year old . |
| 2 | By now I had forgotten Vauban and was surreptitiously staring at the two seated figures . |
| 3 | I ask Perry , staring at the hot orange coil in its metal box . |
| 4 | ‘ But that ca n't be my son , can it ? ’ he continued aggressively , staring at the frightened little boy . |
| 5 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 6 | Buckmaster sat beside him , staring at the bleak snowbound slopes of the moor . |
| 7 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 8 | Now , staring at the big thick lump of meat , her self-confidence vanished . |
| 9 | She stared at the still blue waters of the loch , overhung by weeping willows in their fresh spring greenery . |
| 10 | He stared at the low wooden fence and the pure sward of snow yellowed by the lights , and at the low wire fence and at the high wire fence and at the high wooden fence . |
| 11 | Tilda stared at the brilliant golden-beaked bird , about which there was something frightening . |
| 12 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 13 | I stared at the innocent little square of foil on the counter . |
| 14 | The nomes stared at the innocent little tray . |
| 15 | She stared at the sparkling blue horizon . |
| 16 | He stared at the unfamiliar brown bread , dark brown with an even darker , almost black crust . |
| 17 | There was a gasp , as we stared at the cream-coloured glutinous substance floating in a thin gruel . |