Example sentences of "[pers pn] stare at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stare at the back of the driver 's head . |
| 2 | I stared at the mess of faggots round the hearth of the closed kiln , supernumerary now . |
| 3 | As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol . |
| 4 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 5 | You stare at the gear in the drawer , a glow in your belly spreading through you . |
| 6 | And she stared at the girl for a full minute , before turning to Ben again and with a helpless gesture saying , ‘ My God ! |
| 7 | She stared at the warrior in front of her ; his helmet was intricately engraved , with sweeping lines and curves that reminded her briefly of Jake 's cup . |
| 8 | She stared at the glass of the Tower , where reflections appeared by moments — Fand , Liban , Adam , Fincara . |
| 9 | Then she stared at the picture for a full minute . |
| 10 | Her eyes widened and she stared at the page before throwing the paper down . |
| 11 | She stared at the rim of her cup and said tonelessly , ‘ As you 'll have gathered , I was — devastated when I heard Elise had died . |
| 12 | Idiotically she stared at the receiver in her hands and then dropped it back on its hook . |
| 13 | Unseeing , she stared at the perfection of the exotic plant , hugging her sides in unconscious apprehension , her fingers pressed against her ribs . |
| 14 | And so we stare at the pit in the earth and think we both do and do n't know what sculpture is ’ . |
| 15 | They stared at the floor for a few seconds then said ‘ You 'll have to come back because we did n't have the right tools . ’ ’ |
| 16 | He stared at the river with his shoulders shaking and his hands clasped tightly in his lap . |
| 17 | After Joe had hung up , he stared at the window for a while . |
| 18 | He stared at the field by the quarry . |
| 19 | He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head . |
| 20 | He stared at the bottom of the door . |
| 21 | He had the same aura of privacy that a person at prayer has , the same do-not-touch-me signal of adults that the children recognised , it was in the rigidity of the crouching figure , in the way he stared at the stream without seeing it . |
| 22 | He stared at the table as if he were talking to himself . |
| 23 | He stared at the picture with hate and fear in his eyes . |
| 24 | He stared at the house for a long moment , then turned to lean on the gate and gaze down the hillside . |
| 25 | He stared at the paper for a moment then crumpled it angrily into a ball and tossed it into a corner . |
| 26 | Then he stared at the barrier of earth Heather had made along the hayfield side of the fire . |
| 27 | He stared at the note in something of a stupor , reading it over and over , looking — vainly , of course — for some small consolation in it . |
| 28 | He stared at the topknot of red-gold curls , straining to remember . |