Example sentences of "[conj] stare [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the days , while the man slept , Boy would sleep a little himself , in a chair , in preparation for his nights at The Bar ; but mostly he would stare out of the window at the city , or stare at the television . |
| 2 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |
| 3 | And sees their skin like a strange moon , and stares at the grass |
| 4 | I listen to the silence and stare into the space and I have a sense of belonging . |
| 5 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 6 | We both stand and stare at the man , and at the blood spreading amongst the red hair . |
| 7 | He would stand and stare into the darkness trying to see the old ruins of Caesar 's time , but not tonight , the mist was too thick . |
| 8 | A Shamen show is designed so you do n't just stand and stare at the band : and though the live act might be the heart of the show , the spectacle of Colin ( cropped Aberdeen curls , Trotsky shades ) , and Will ( shoulder length braided locks , shabby green fatigues ) is only part of an evening of light , music and effects that now involves around ten people . |
| 9 | The way the parapet wall , which screens the attics , sweeps down in a bold curve is exceptionally pretty , and it really makes you want to stop and stare at the house as you glimpse it through trees and across the river meadow from the Dorchester to Godmanstone road . |
| 10 | The end of the arcade was full of women , all of them whispering and staring towards the place where Zurachina 's servants had set down her chair . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's in love with God , ’ said Lydia , rolling on to her back and staring at the sky . |
| 12 | Monks listened with close attention , biting his lip and staring at the floor . |
| 13 | In the light from the partly-opened curtains , she could see his head above hers , his neck stretched , his eyes open and staring at the wall above the bed-head . |
| 14 | Then we stagger to our feet and pick our clothes off the floor , and sit and drool into our glass , puffing on a pensive perfecto , and staring at the tabloid and all its gruesome crap . |
| 15 | She 's in bed now , lying on her back and staring at the ceiling . |
| 16 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 17 | He quietly closed the door and , leaning his back to it , he dropped his gaze to her upturned face , before tilting his head upwards and staring at the ceiling , his anguished thoughts in turmoil . |
| 18 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 19 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
| 20 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 21 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
| 22 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 23 | The rest of the journey she went silent , smoking and staring into the distance until Marler pulled up in front of the HQ of World Security in Threadneedle Street . |
| 24 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |
| 25 | He chewed and stared to the south , where his precious parchment sheets might even now be ash , blowing on the storm wind of the new shaman 's power . |
| 26 | Markby stopped and stared across the field . |
| 27 | Meryl switched it off again and stared across the room , her heart thudding . |
| 28 | Culley turned and stared across the site . |
| 29 | When I reached the spot , I breathed in the herb 's mint/ammonia vapours and stared over the landscape . |
| 30 | I went on through , sliding the heavy plate glass aside to walk on to the humid porch where a morose looking McIllvanney slouched in a cane chair and stared through the insect screens at the darkening sea . |