Example sentences of "staring at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 2 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 3 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 4 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 5 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 6 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 8 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 9 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 10 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 11 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 12 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 13 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
| 14 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 15 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 16 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 17 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 18 | He was leaning forward across the table , staring at me with a sort of frustrated belligerence . |
| 19 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 20 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 21 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 22 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 23 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 24 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 25 | who found me staring at you in a store |
| 26 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |