Example sentences of "[was/were] stare [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hung over the rim and were stared back at by our reflections , horribly deformed in the cracks of the thin ice . |
| 2 | The moon was shining full on his face — it seemed as if he were staring up at it . |
| 3 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 4 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 5 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 6 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 7 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 8 | She turned around , groping for the door-handle , and saw he was staring up at the small terraced house with interest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Kim was staring back at him , the openness of his face disarming Hammond . |
| 11 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 12 | But Ben was staring down at where his left hand had been only a moment before , sounding the chord . |
| 13 | She was staring down at her fan . |
| 14 | Both her hands were imprisoned in his now , and he was staring down at them . |
| 15 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 16 | The Direktor was silent and when Willi looked at him he was staring down at his glass , a disconcerted expression on his face as though Willi had said something embarrassing . |
| 17 | She looked at her sister , who had grown very still and was staring down at her hands . |
| 18 | He was staring out at the great dark sweep of the Edge , above the dale . |