Example sentences of "stare out at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 2 | He stares out at us with steely blue eyes , his hair neatly twisted into one dark curl on his forehead ; he 's sporting a smart black frock-coat with a neatly-buttoned waistcoat and a full cravat anchored down with an ornate jewelled pin and chain . |
| 3 | ‘ Pity it stares out at a row of other houses . ’ |
| 4 | Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse . |
| 5 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 6 | Nobody listens but instead they stare out at the countryside , the classic English landscape . |
| 7 | In every newspaper at which we glance , the obituaries stare out at us . |
| 8 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 9 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 10 | Opening the deep freeze is like standing on stage at the Palladium : there are that many eyes staring out at you . |
| 11 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 12 | He was staring out at the great dark sweep of the Edge , above the dale . |
| 13 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 14 | It was more alert today , staring out at its surroundings through moist brown eyes that were learning to focus , and playing with swishing its tail . |
| 15 | For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks . |
| 16 | In the first car Sarah sat dry-eyed , staring out at the passing roads . |
| 17 | Matthew Arnold , staring out at the Channel , thought of Sophocles and the sea of faith that had since receded . |
| 18 | She stood , staring out at the pond and the dark Grove rising up the mountain behind it . |
| 19 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 20 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 21 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 22 | Languidly she turned her head to the west-facing windows , staring out at the neighbouring mountain high above the hill upon which Saracen was built . |
| 23 | Smiling to herself , she glanced into the room , and saw General Froebe staring out at the dock with a melancholy gaze . |
| 24 | His astonished gaze was fixed on the second familiar face staring out at the public floggings from amid the crowd of frightened coolies on the first truck , a face he had n't seen for even longer — that of his own father ! |
| 25 | He sat motionless , staring out at the Britches , for five minutes . |
| 26 | She just sat there , staring out at us with her face all blank and closed up , as if she could n't see us any more , and as the bus lurched forward we all waved and ran off to our big school up the hill . |
| 27 | The screen flickered wildly then cleared , DeVore 's face staring out at him . |
| 28 | He sat up , rubbing his eyes and staring out at the mist that hung over the grey stone building . |
| 29 | Staring out at him were a pair of steady eyes that had lines of pain and care etched round them . |
| 30 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |