Example sentences of "stared at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barney stared at her aghast . |
| 2 | The only other person privy to the beating of the retreat was a young kitchenmaid , who stared at her future monarch in amazement . |
| 3 | Charlie stared at her gleaming white blouse and dark blue pleated skirt . |
| 4 | Thérèse stared at her black patent shoes , those twin vices crushing her toes , telling her to take her feet away . |
| 5 | Claudia stared at her linked fingers and planned to get away as soon as they stopped . |
| 6 | Her arms held out to her sides , she stared at her wet and muddy palms . |
| 7 | The woman stared at her wide-eyed . |
| 8 | She murmured good morning , sat down and stared at her open notebook , the tip of her pen poised above the clean page . |
| 9 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
| 10 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 11 | The hands on the big wall clock jerked around with the enthusiasm of a convict doing forced labour , the offenders stared at their battered and scuffed shoes in awed silence with the exception of a drunk who had missed the dreaded word MINISTRY and who openly admired Frau Nordern 's figure but who , with the solidarity of the criminal underworld , was instantly hushed into silence by the other offenders . |
| 12 | Willie stared at their silent silhouettes in the darkness , for what seemed an eternity . |
| 13 | The boy stared at its departing form , amazed that the bird should be so frightened . |
| 14 | Pulling out his watch , he stared at its unkind face . |
| 15 | Even in the dismal gloom , strobed by laser flashes , the boy 's green eyes gleamed with evident intelligence … and with fierce enmity … and with a kind of fascination , as he weighed the mask in his hand and stared at its former wearer , now revealed . |
| 16 | Charlie stared at his new companion . |
| 17 | Gedanken stared at his bare feet . |
| 18 | He stared at his unconscious friend . |
| 19 | Brought suddenly back to a world of misunderstandings , she stared at his broad shoulders in dismay . |
| 20 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 21 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 22 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 23 | In horrified disbelief he stared at his empty hand . |
| 24 | Corbett stared at his bold-faced servant . |
| 25 | She stared at his blank face . |
| 26 | She stared at his ruthless face and felt afraid . |
| 27 | Discomfited , they stared at his heaving shoulders . |
| 28 | I stared at his thin purply-grey T-shirt and his shoulder-blades heaving underneath . |
| 29 | The major stared at his superior officer . |
| 30 | He stared at his old neighbour trying to puzzle out why she looked so different . |