Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] stared at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 2 | Aaron sat on the roof and stared at the sky . |
| 3 | She sat in her study and stared at the telephone . |
| 4 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 5 | Wandering out again like an unhappy ghost , she went into her workroom , turned on the light and stared at the bench . |
| 6 | She tucked her hands under her armpits and stared at the ground . |
| 7 | She laid down the telephone and stared at the view outside her office window . |
| 8 | Jotan leaned out over the rail and stared at the movement at the foot of the stairs . |
| 9 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 10 | Quinn replaced the phone , walked to the long couch , lay on his back with his hands clasped behind his head and stared at the ceiling . |
| 11 | The madman shook his head and stared at the bear but Athelstan saw him blink away the tears which pricked his madcap eyes . |
| 12 | Leonora turned on her back and stared at the ceiling . |
| 13 | He whipped at his horse with the reins and stared at the wood ahead , trying to drag it closer by sheer willpower . |
| 14 | Lake perched on the arm of Morris 's chair and stared at the screen . |
| 15 | Christine squirmed in her chair and stared at the carpet . |
| 16 | Horne heard a sound , jumped up in terror and stared at the apparition just next to the old wall . |
| 17 | He showered again to get rid of the tell-tale smell , then lay on his bed and stared at the ceiling , quite immobile , thinking . |
| 18 | Evelyn lay on her bed and stared at the ceiling . |
| 19 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 20 | Marion sat on the bed and stared at the wallpaper ( roses — so pretty — she had chosen it herself ) without seeing it . |
| 21 | She picked up a book and stared at the firelight , hoping that Finn might get bitten by something slightly venomous . |
| 22 | He lowered his hand and stared at the man sitting facing him . |
| 23 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 24 | Cranston steadied himself carefully on the icy cobbles and stared at the sky . |
| 25 | Kim bit his lip and stared at the floor as his father rose to look meaningfully in their direction ; Tam and Lan also shifted uncomfortably under his gaze , which remained on them unwaveringly throughout their mother 's act of devotion . |
| 26 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
| 27 | She went around the lobby formed by the bathroom and stared at the dusk flat . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought that was what you said , ’ he muttered , then , drawing in his breath , he put his head back against the pillows and stared at the ceiling . |
| 29 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |