Example sentences of "stare at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other excitements took their place but I was more inclined to stare at them in amazement than paint them . |
| 2 | He turned his head to stare at me as if he could n't at once comprehend my interest , but then , understanding , said of course I could go if I wanted to . |
| 3 | McIllvanney did not respond , except to stare at me with his unblinking and reptilian eyes , and thus he forced me to add an unnecessary explanation . |
| 4 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 5 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 6 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 7 | She continued to stare at him in silence , waiting for further explanation . |
| 8 | Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind . |
| 9 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 12 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 13 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 14 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 15 | Perry stares at her for a moment , and then examines her arm . |
| 16 | He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something . |
| 17 | He stares at you in raptures . |
| 18 | I said , please do n't stare at me like that . |
| 19 | If they did n't stare at him on TV he would n't be in a position to spend £425,000 on a new house . |
| 20 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 21 | Her whole world felt as though it had just been rocked on its axis by the announcement , so that for long silent seconds she could only stare at him with pain in her eyes . |
| 22 | But the others could only stare at him in speechless amazement . |
| 23 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't stare at her like that , ’ Zurachina whispered . |
| 25 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 26 | ROS and GUIL , holding the belts taut , stare at him in some bewilderment . |
| 27 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 28 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |