Example sentences of "stare [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 're not in prison — you do n't have to stare at the walls . |
| 32 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 33 | Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother . |
| 34 | How could he be so offensive as to stare at the chap 's disfigured face , he wondered . |
| 35 | I used to stare by the hour at the old and the new vistas side by side . |
| 36 | No one who had stared into the chaos of the warp , no one whose living was to do so , could be unsophisticated and survive . |
| 37 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 38 | They continued to feed , or stared out on the Zoo not looking in the direction of Minch at all ; while Creggan was so busy staring at Minch in delight and pleasure that he did not notice behind him , in the next-door cage , Slorne stare for the moment at Minch and then swing round and silently resume her vigil at the back top of her cage , looking at the trees and sky . |
| 39 | The proctologist stretched his sunburned legs on the cockpit cushions and rested his head so he could stare past the bimini cover at the stars . |
| 40 | He would stand and stare into the darkness trying to see the old ruins of Caesar 's time , but not tonight , the mist was too thick . |
| 41 | He made himself stare into the eyes in which , to his discomfort , he saw more pain than anger . |
| 42 | Liz Headleand stares into the mirror , as though entranced . |
| 43 | At the top end of the paddock Arkle haughtily stares into the distance . |
| 44 | ROS raises himself on his elbows and shades his eyes as he stares into the auditorium . |
| 45 | Film Postcards from the edge Anne Billson stares into the abyss with Lawrence Kasdan , and starts to panic |
| 46 | I listen to the silence and stare into the space and I have a sense of belonging . |
| 47 | I stare into The SUN . |
| 48 | I stare into the TV picture to see if I can see anyone moving in my flat . |
| 49 | Some stare into the cafe where Marjorie and Sandra are sitting . |
| 50 | Animal programmes force us to look at our fears : we stare into the eyes of the enemy ( bats , rats , snakes , sharks , wasps ) . |
| 51 | Leonora dreamed of the fierce rapture they 'd shared on the island and began to long for Penry to want her violently , to stop treating her like a younger sister , and sometimes after he 'd gone she 'd stare in the mirror in discontent , wishing she were tall , or voluptuous , or blonde . |
| 52 | None of the young women you see in the photographs in this book is a model , and none had cultivated and practised the professional gaze we are used to seeing stare from the pages of a magazine . |
| 53 | stops , stares at the clock |
| 54 | He stares at the door and his eyes lose focus . |
| 55 | She just stares at the floor and rocks . |
| 56 | While the ebullient Tim chunders on about anything — switching from astute frontman to village idiot at the twist of a phrase — bassist Martin balefully stares at the floor looking ever more intense and occasionally thundering through a paragraph of bile . |
| 57 | While the ebullient Tim chunders on about anything — switching from astute frontman to village idiot at the twist of a phrase — bassist Martin balefully stares at the floor looking ever more intense and occasionally thundering through a paragraph of bile . |
| 58 | It stares at the windowlight and can not make it out . |
| 59 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 60 | he stares at the winter colours |