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Example sentences of "[conj] stare [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	No hair-stroking or sighing or staring sorrowfully at the ceiling , not for her .
2	Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk .
3	If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation .
4	Kidd glanced across at the cornered Volkswagen , its terrified inhabitant , the three FBI men examining the empty attaché case , two more Yankees standing back and staring hopefully at the sky , and three of his colleagues trying to take statements .
5	Two lynx , sleek and amber in the first enclosure that he passed , were disregarding the tourists and staring possessively at the peafowl across the way .
6	The Curator did not see the look in Mr Wolski 's eyes as he glanced back to the window and stared again at the wolves outside , who had turned to face the icy wind with narrowed yellow eyes .
7	With a whimper of disgust and confusion , she sank into her chair and stared absently at the mound of paperwork .
8	At crucial moments , they froze in mid-stride and stared anxiously at the ground , their radios pressed to their ears .
9	Lissa adjusted her foothold on the sloping riverbank and stared crossly at the cabin cruiser moored on the gently rippling water .
10	Walking back into her room , she sat down on the bed and stared unseeingly at the wall .
11	He screwed up his eyes and stared unseeingly at the calendar on the further wall .
12	Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood .
13	Tess went inside the ancient church and stared sadly at the tombs of her ancestors .
14	She stood with her hands clasped tightly together and stared frantically at the curtain rail , her face racked with pain .
15	He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people .
16	She merely snorted , as I knew she would , and stared moodily at the blank of the comm .
17	Lord John Rossendale , elegantly handsome in white breeches and silk stockings , black dancing shoes , and a gold-frogged cutaway coat with a tall blue collar and twin epaulettes of gold chain , stood at the bedroom 's window and stared moodily at the Brussels rooftops .
18	He rolled onto his stomach and stared moodily at the grass .
19	He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time .
20	George leaned back and stared consideringly at the questioner .
21	She laid down her letters and stared blankly at the wall .
22	Kelly switched on the television and stared blankly at the screen as some mindless cops and robbers show unfolded .
23	He rang off and stared gloomily at the phone .
24	Bull O'Malley suppressed a sigh , and stared gloomily at the fire .
25	John Harbour , as if looking into a mirror , leaned chummily against Babs Osborne and stared adoringly at the camera .
26	She paused in applying her make-up and stared reflectively at the mirror .
27	Athelstan stopped and stared hard at the coroner .
28	She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper .
29	His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor .
30	Depressed , she leaned back in her seat , resting her head against the headrest while staring unseeingly at the hills and at the Esk River winding its way through the valley .