Example sentences of "stare [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 2 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 3 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 4 | Perry stares at her for a moment , and then examines her arm . |
| 5 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
| 6 | A pier is a disappointed bridge ; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel . |
| 7 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 8 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 12 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 13 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 14 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 17 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 18 | We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked . |
| 19 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 20 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 21 | I jerked the phone away from my ear and stared into it for a second . |
| 22 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 23 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 24 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 25 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 26 | Alec stared at him for a few seconds , then walked out into the heat and glare of the mid-day sun . |
| 27 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 28 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 29 | The face stared at him for a moment , and then looked away . |
| 30 | Mick stared at him for a moment , then again he said , ‘ Goodbye . ’ |