Example sentences of "stare at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No stripping off and being stood on blocks for the world-weary rich to stare at in lust or mockery . |
| 2 | Surprised that he had even told anyone , let alone complimented her in her absence , Ellie looked at him in astonishment — which was a waste of time , because he had found something quite riveting to stare at in the fireplace . |
| 3 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 4 | And they suddenly began to laugh , the joke toppling over them like a wave , until they wept tears of laughter , stared at by the loud , powdered woman , and by the waitresses newly attired . |
| 5 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 6 | Out of the corner of her eye , she caught the fact that they were being stared at with unveiled interest by most members of the group , the most curious of all , of course , being Mandy . |
| 7 | But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose . |
| 8 | Pre-war south-bound motorists may still remember , soon after leaving the Kingston by-pass , being stared at by supercilious llamas and ruminant bison from a field on the left which was the boundary of the Ezra estate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That 's probably because I 'm being stared at by some bloody bla ginger haired git in the back row ! |