Example sentences of "stared at [art] [noun sg] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magician turned , stared at the cat and said something in a strange language . |
| 2 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 3 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 4 | He lay on his back , as on so many previous nights , and stared at the ceiling and thought . |
| 5 | Lancaster stared at the superintendent and gulped . |
| 6 | Rachel stared at the ground and wished they 'd all go home , but when her father spoke again she looked up in surprise . |