Example sentences of "[vb past] stared at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 2 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 3 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |
| 4 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 5 | He had stared at her suspiciously and sniffed . |
| 6 | She had stared at him wide-eyed , unseeing , and any desire that he might have felt had died in that instant . |
| 7 | For as long as he could remember , people had stared at him . |
| 8 | David Weintraub , who had stared at the ceiling , dropped an eye towards the Secretary of State . |
| 9 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 10 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 11 | Susan 's husband had stared at her bleakly from the bed , already certain of her betrayal . |
| 12 | He had stared at Dimitri Volkov and grimaced . |
| 13 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 14 | No wonder the girl had stared at her and drawn her own conclusions . |
| 15 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 16 | He had stared at the bottle in his hand , walked outside , smashed it against the outhouse wall , watched the liquor run down , dark against the brickwork , and returned to the house , almost reeled past Matey as though he had drunk all of it , and mounted the stairs to her room to remind himself of what he had lost , hurt though it might . |
| 17 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 18 | Caroline had stared at her blankly before finally smiling faintly and agreeing that it would not be . |
| 19 | She had stared at it , struck by the combination of those two names : the dark romanticism of Damian and the ruthlessness of Flint . |