Example sentences of "stare [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Irridek , ’ he breathed , lifting his head to stare into her stunned face with blackly dilated eyes . |
| 2 | Moreover , those techs were kneeling and bowing their heads — while the priest began to rant , his eyeballs rolling up whitely as though to stare inside his own skull . |
| 3 | How long she would have stared into his beautiful cool eyes before he chose to release her she 'd never know , because at that moment the band struck into the opening bars of ‘ If you knew Suzie ’ , demanding her attention as with an exclamation of pleased surprise she half turned to watch them , her mouth curling into a spontaneous smile . |
| 4 | Very quiet ; no one will stare at your black eye . |
| 5 | ‘ E's got funny blue eyes , they stare at yer all the time . |
| 6 | Usually when I sit and stare at my blank sheets of A4 paper every month , I am trying to think how I can help you with your Duomatic machines . |
| 7 | You know how it is — you sit on the underground with nothing to read , and you either stare at your fellow passengers or you drift into thinking . |
| 8 | She stood staring after his lithe figure , gripped by the same sense of anguish and loss that she 'd felt in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 9 | He kissed Frau Nordern , Erika , and Omi , holding her firmly but gently , and staring into her old eyes , and saying , Do remember our little chat this afternoon , dear sister , ’ and she , her eyes moist , like a well refilling after a drought , promised that she would . |
| 10 | ‘ It was wonderful meeting you , ’ he said , and she found herself staring into his mesmeric blue-eyed gaze . |
| 11 | Terry did n't appear to have thought about this before and he puzzled over it , staring into his bitter and a bag of smoky bacon crisps . |
| 12 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 13 | When he awoke a dragon was watching him ; at least , it was staring in his general direction . |
| 14 | High overhead , a buzzard circled lazily on a column of warm air and on the roadway a butterfly with big white-ringed , russet-coloured eyes staring from its black wingtips , opened and closed its wings . |
| 15 | What I 'd ask for now er erm is a sort of general rounding up , summing up staring on my left hand side . |
| 16 | Staring at her white face in the bedroom mirror , she conjured up an image of her family . |
| 17 | Oh , hell , he was staring at her left breast and his eyes were glittering . |
| 18 | ‘ Who is that over there ? ’ she asked , staring at her own face in a mirror opposite her bed . |
| 19 | Aghast at her line of thought , she sat up abruptly , staring at her shadowy reflection in the mirror opposite the bed . |
| 20 | Staring at her filthy hand , the mud-encrusted nails , she burst out laughing . |
| 21 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 22 | Forty-eight hours from now , she thought , staring at her pale reflection in the mirror , Anne Hammond would have been given the miracle of the chance of a new lease of life , while her own future seemed to stretch emptily ahead with nothing but work to fill it . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you never touched painkillers , ’ he said , staring at her open hand . |
| 24 | With England staring at their greatest humiliation for nearly 50 years , he sent on a defender and explained : ‘ He 's not had the best of times lately but I believe this is the time to support certain people . |
| 25 | Others keep on staring at their pink plastic cups . |
| 26 | When she had watered them she often sat on the ledge , simply staring at their thin greenness and absorbing the peace of the place . |
| 27 | ‘ Good , good ! ’ she replied , looking delightedly at her cousin who was staring at my new clothes . |
| 28 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 29 | Staring at his obdurate face , she pleaded helplessly , ‘ Leo , please do n't do this . |
| 30 | He sat broodily , staring at his untouched coffee . |