Example sentences of "stare her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 2 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 3 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 4 | Such a summer now stared her in the face , for she had , through indecision , failed to fix herself up any foreign excursions ; she looked towards it and towards her approaching examinations , and felt sadly weak . |
| 5 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |