Example sentences of "staring at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolonen 's eyes were wide , staring at the corpse . |
| 2 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 3 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 4 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 5 | He wiped his face with one end of the brightly coloured sweat rag he wore round his neck , staring at the problem ahead . |
| 6 | I hate the tube in London , but the one redeeming feature is staring at the faces … |
| 7 | Fergus was staring at the plasterboard expanse above them . |
| 8 | That fancy feast at the Mamounia was a fitting end to a week spent loitering in hushed palace courtyards and lush palm-tree gardens , staring at the marble mosaic walls and the carved cedarwood ceilings in the palaces and in the Museum of Moroccan Art . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't imagine why you wanted to come here , ’ she said , staring at the milling crowds of people with distaste . |
| 10 | A teenage clerk from one of the offices down the corridor was passing with a sheaf of rolled documents bound in ribbon , and he was staring at the exchange . |
| 11 | He stood in front of the door , staring at the peeling blue paint as if trying to imprint every detail on his memory . |
| 12 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |
| 13 | Roy was standing in the doorway , staring at the kitchen as if he was in the wrong house . |
| 14 | His favourite places to be were the chestnut leaf table and the top of the mahogany tallboy under the landing window on which he lay for hours , staring at the peaks and plateaux of the moor . |
| 15 | ‘ I see you 're staring at the handkerchieves , my dear . |
| 16 | The middle section parted company next , landing neatly between two branches , and Mother was left staring at the tip section , contemplating disaster . |
| 17 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 18 | He sits there sucking on a dead cheroot , staring at the board like he 's forgotten a phone number . |
| 19 | ‘ Spoken like a true woman , ’ said Dr Neil , staring at the board , empty save for a few pieces clustered round a pair of kings in one corner . |
| 20 | ‘ The exploitation of workers ; the disruption of native cultures ; evidence of the military-industrial ethos , you will walk like a fool amongst other fools : a tourist , staring at the remnants of the past , memorials to worn-out cultures , galleries dedicated to the ostentation and decadence of slave-masters . |
| 21 | ‘ Better you than Father Condon , I suppose , ’ Frank said , staring at the blankets . |
| 22 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 23 | They lounge round my chair now , staring at the chaplain and licking their lips . |
| 24 | She , too , was staring at the debris . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , you would , ’ said Lydia , staring at the flames , lost in thought . |
| 26 | They sit staring at the sunlight reflected off the monotonous river . |
| 27 | He said this last part carefully , his eyes staring at the road ahead . |
| 28 | Two men were staring at the road . |
| 29 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 30 | Emily sat in her father 's study , staring at the mass of figures that danced before her eyes . |