Example sentences of "[noun pl] stared [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chelonian 's eyes stared vacantly at the roof of the tent . |
| 2 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 3 | The peacock-shaped hedges stared impassively into the distance , seeming to lift their beaks higher in lofty disdain . |
| 4 | The great Blue Boar inn was a half-stone tavern mansion , its glazed horned windows stared out over the market place . |
| 5 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 6 | Alexei stared frankly at the display . |
| 7 | Alexei stared out over the view , and wondered why his father had caused his house to be built in such a style . |
| 8 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |