Example sentences of "and stared [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin chewed on his lip and stared up into the darkness . |
| 2 | Charlie took a pace backwards and stared up at the name above the shop . |
| 3 | He shook his head and stared up at the sun now breaking through the blanket of mist . |
| 4 | He lay in bed , for some time , and stared up at the ceiling trying to puzzle it out . |
| 5 | Corbett leaned back against the bolster and stared up at the ceiling . |
| 6 | Lying back down on the rumpled bed , she stretched luxuriously , then hooked her hands round the bed-head and stared up at the ceiling , a soft smile on her face . |
| 7 | The coroner wiped his nose on the back of his hand and stared up at the sky . |
| 8 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 9 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 10 | ‘ That last hedge you jumped , ’ her father said , breaking another seemingly endless silence as he stopped and stared up at the facade of the great house . |
| 11 | Ben hurried to the shutters and threw them open , then turned and stared back into the room . |
| 12 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 13 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |
| 14 | Ben turned and stared out across the water fixedly . |
| 15 | He was swinging a short sword back and forth idly , and stared out across the tree tops with the air of one carrying out a tedious and unglamorous assignment . |
| 16 | By common consent they sat down on the wet seat of ‘ Traveller 's Rest ’ , huddled under the umbrella , and stared out across the city . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ she answered quietly , and felt so guilt-ridden then that she could n't look at him , but turned her head and stared out of the side-window . |
| 18 | He stopped and stared out of the window , across Horse Guards ' , looking suddenly weary . |
| 19 | He hung up and stared out of the window , over the roofs of Victoria . |
| 20 | Jack leant back in his chair , put his feet on the desk and stared out of the window . |
| 21 | One of them ignored everyone including Mrs Black and just filed her nails and stared out of the window . |
| 22 | As they drew closer to London , Ralph abandoned the paper and stared out of the window . |
| 23 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 24 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 25 | He went and stared out of the window . |
| 26 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 27 | Merrill took a sip of her cognac to hide the spontaneity of her relief and stared out of the window to the floodlit weeping willow on the opposite bank drooping its spring-green hair towards the water . |
| 28 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 29 | Lou withdrew her hand , leaned her head against the wall and stared out of the window as if trying to pull her thoughts together . |
| 30 | Nathan moodily poked the bed , hiked down to the window and stared out at the night , then came back and sat on a seat in no-man 's land . |