Example sentences of "staring [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 3 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 4 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 5 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 6 | Never face discomfort till it 's staring you in the face . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is staring you in the face , but you 're too blind to see it . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She liked flowers , liked even more the thought behind them , but Gaily only remembered when he caught them staring him in the face — or in the feet , as now . |
| 13 | This looked promising : 3 He is produced by fusion , there is an excessive abundance of the substance in volcanic gases so maybe here was the evidence staring him in the face that fusion is taking place among the volcanic rocks . |
| 14 | Staring him in the eye was the face of a stop-watch two inches in diameter . |
| 15 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 16 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 17 | It is staring us in the face . |
| 18 | With those facts staring us in the face , it was monstrous and absurd to propose to sink a large outlay of money in the purchase of ground in this neighbourhood , and in the erection of new Government buildings . |
| 19 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 20 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 23 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
| 24 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 25 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |