Example sentences of "have been staring at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 2 | Robin-Anne had been staring at the dark sea , but now she turned her big eyes back to me . |
| 3 | The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time . |
| 4 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 5 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 6 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 7 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 8 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |