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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Agrippa toyed with the tassels on his robes whilst Benjamin just stared into the middle distance , lost in his own thoughts . |
| 5 | ‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return . |
| 6 | ‘ His eyes are a very nice color , ’ Isobel said , still staring at the sleeping baby . |
| 7 | ‘ Or not , ’ the younger man concluded , swiftly , still staring into the middle distance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I simply stared across the empty greyness while my headache rattled my brain cells like a QuaAvian earthquake . |
| 10 | George Cowley stood silently staring at the unconscious man . |
| 11 | She set everything out on the table , then stared at the blank sheet of paper in front of her and gave a small sigh . |
| 12 | 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 . |