Example sentences of "[noun prp] stare [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 2 | Crouched in the shadows at the curve of the banister , Frankie stared down at the dark jungle of coats and jackets hanging from a row of wall-hooks in the lower corridor . |
| 3 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 4 | Ellie stared out at the full moon above the yard , above the wrong part of town . |
| 5 | Rincewind stared muzzily at the recumbent tourist . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Ali Christie was sitting in the Pavilion Gallery in Brook Street staring morosely at the gilt-framed picture of his wife on the desk . |
| 7 | Helen stared doggedly at a Swiss cheese plant . |
| 8 | De Craon stared bleakly at the English clerk and shrugged to show his unease . |
| 9 | Jack Butler stared morosely at the large white television in his modern penthouse fiat in the centre of Leeds . |
| 10 | Sara stared irritably at the enormous untidy lump of steak Lizzie brought out for her inspection . |
| 11 | Virginia stared down at the half-eaten roll on her plate , and took a shaky sip of coffee . |
| 12 | Joe stared down at the large , rough hand gently rubbing against him . |
| 13 | Connon stared down at the young man in the picture as if he was looking at a stranger and trying to analyse what made him seem vaguely familiar . |
| 14 | Isabel stared up at the royal castle high on its hill overlooking the town and wondered what the grim stone fortress would mean to her . |
| 15 | Athelstan stared down at the long , white face under its tarry black hood . |
| 16 | Peter Carson stared hard at the open copy of The Cookery Year on the work surface before him . |
| 17 | Outside Benjamin stared up at the darkening sky . |
| 18 | The door was opened almost immediately by a tiny grey-haired woman , who looked past Collins to stare hard at the two strangers standing behind him . |
| 19 | Bodie stared down at the spread-eagled figure , then reached out to close the staring eyes . |
| 20 | Charlie stared out at the open fields that must once have been productive farmland . |
| 21 | Lt. Mikhail Vologsky stared again at the buff-coloured application form , so meticulously filled out , and so callously rejected . |