Example sentences of "staring [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 2 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 3 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 4 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 5 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 6 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 7 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 8 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 9 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 10 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 11 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 12 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 13 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 14 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |