Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] stare at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 2 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 3 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 4 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 5 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 6 | Dyson went on staring at the raindrops , saying nothing . |
| 7 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 8 | But if the guy tries to lay a finger on me , he 'll end up staring at the moon ! ’ |
| 9 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 10 | Philpott watched them leave then stared at the folder Kolchinsky had left with him . |
| 11 | I just sat there staring at the bag as it unscrewed itself and the wind took it and blew it up into the air and away . |