Example sentences of "she stare [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse .
2 Eyes rounded in appalled realisation , she stared up at the man who stood stooped in the confined space up ahead .
3 Her legs splayed inelegantly and with her mouth wide and dry with fear , she stared up at the stranger .
4 As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track .
5 She stared up at the rigging that fretted against a sky of pearl .
6 Tonight she was smiling as she stared up at the screen , and Buddie had given her money .
7 She stared up from the ground , her wings hanging loose as if she no longer had strength to hold them to her body , her left wing seeming bent as if it had once been broken .
8 Standing at the kitchen window , she stared out into the garden .
9 She stared out over the sea .
10 She stared out for a moment longer , and then she turned her attention back inside .
11 She stared out of the window and saw the stars and a bright moon .
12 Turning her back on him , she stared out of the window .
13 She stared out of the window again , but this time could n't see any movement at all .
14 She stared out of the window , disturbed .
15 She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner .
16 Something in that reminded her of Clare and she stared out of the window , frowning , as she tried to think what it was .
17 The ‘ how ’ of it occupied her mind as she stared out of the window , yet she had come to no definite conclusions when the sonorous drone of the engines made her eyelids start to droop .
18 She nodded , disappointed that he was being so matter-of-fact , and , pulling herself together , she stared out of the window as the headlights shone on the hedges and fields of the countryside they were passing through .
19 She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before .
20 She stared out of the car window where the wheat fields , blue-green in the sunshine , undulated towards the distant headstocks of a colliery .
21 She stared down at the crucifix , wondering desperately how much they knew , whether they had any knowledge of her liaison with Tristram or whether these questions were merely based upon suspicion .
22 Carrie leaned back in her chair and rubbed the tips of her fingers across her forehead as she stared down at the mass of papers on the kitchen table .
23 She stared down at the floor and the remains of what had been a human being .
24 Still , she reflected soberly as she stared down at the water , being on the boat had at least served to clarify her thoughts in one direction .
25 Averting her eyes , she stared down at the ironing-board , then , for the lack of any other brilliant alternatives , began to slowly move the iron back and forth across her blouse , her face shuttered .
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