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Example sentences of "[adv] stare [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads .
2	‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp .
3	I look away , for all the reasons that people like me , with homes and an income , look away : a mixture of helplessness , guilt and the desire not to stare at a perfect stranger , as it were , in bed .
4	On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave .
5	Agrippa toyed with the tassels on his robes whilst Benjamin just stared into the middle distance , lost in his own thoughts .
6	‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return .
7	‘ His eyes are a very nice color , ’ Isobel said , still staring at the sleeping baby .
8	‘ Or not , ’ the younger man concluded , swiftly , still staring into the middle distance .
9	He is hunched over , his elbows fused to his knees and his hands pressed flat against the sides of his head , blinkering his downwards stare from the irreconcilable contrast of ever changing outside and never-changing inside .
10	I simply stared across the empty greyness while my headache rattled my brain cells like a QuaAvian earthquake .
11	George Cowley stood silently staring at the unconscious man .
12	She set everything out on the table , then stared at the blank sheet of paper in front of her and gave a small sigh .
13	The scribe indicated a character in the centre of a column of script on the page of an opened book , and the assistant nodded , then stared into the middle distance and began to reel off information .