Example sentences of "stare [prep] the window " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you would but use her , ’ said David , and turned his back and went to stare from the window at the frosty strand and the shifting , misty sea . |
| 2 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 3 | An hour later she was once again despondently staring through the window , completely at a loss for anything to do . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 5 | Staring from the window , her mouth curved in a smile , she wondered what he would say if she told him that if he did make love to her he would be the first . |
| 6 | She stood on the landing , maybe a minute , maybe half an hour , staring at the window . |
| 7 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 8 | Hari sat up in bed and stared through the window to where the light from the street lamp paled into insignificance against the rising sun . |
| 9 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 10 | She turned her back on him and stared through the window . |
| 11 | She stared through the window . |
| 12 | Jonathon stared from the window at a landscape which was not the one Melanie saw . |
| 13 | He could tell she was very annoyed by the way she jogged her foot up and down as she stared at the window . |
| 14 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
| 15 | He leaned back and stared at the window . |
| 16 | After Joe had hung up , he stared at the window for a while . |
| 17 | She stared at the window aghast , and the woman 's face stared back , shadowy and haggard , blurred by the streaming rain . |