Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the others could only stare at him in speechless amazement . |
| 4 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 5 | It was three days now since the wedding and yet he could not look at her without thinking that . |
| 6 | They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain . |
| 7 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 8 | She could n't look at him in the face . |