Example sentences of "staring at [art] ceiling " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's in bed now , lying on her back and staring at the ceiling . |
| 2 | He sucked furiously on the joint , staring at the ceiling . |
| 3 | Then you usually lie there just staring at the ceiling , thinking about everything that could go wrong . |
| 4 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 5 | I jumped up on to my bunk and looked at the others sitting around playing cards , arguing with each other or lying on their beds staring at the ceiling . |
| 6 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 7 | In fact , she was staring at the ceiling of the escape pod . |
| 8 | The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's up there , ’ he said , still staring at the ceiling . |
| 10 | He quietly closed the door and , leaning his back to it , he dropped his gaze to her upturned face , before tilting his head upwards and staring at the ceiling , his anguished thoughts in turmoil . |
| 11 | In shirt and trousers , he lay upon the big brass bedstead , his hands under his head , staring at the ceiling . |
| 12 | ‘ Hmm , ’ I said , staring at the ceiling , one finger to my lips . |
| 13 | The golden irises of his eyes seemed to have expanded , and with his head held too high he appeared to be staring at the ceiling . |
| 14 | After Broadman had left , at a run , the alchemist spent some time staring at the ceiling . |
| 15 | The magistrate , staring at the ceiling , asked why the landlord had not remembered this . |
| 16 | Gran was still staring at the ceiling . |
| 17 | Much later that night , Clare lay in her bed staring at the ceiling . |
| 18 | In the brief flare of the lighter she saw he was lying back hands clasped under his head staring at the ceiling . |
| 19 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 20 | When he had gone , she turned the light off and lay back on the bed , still in her dress if not her knickers , staring at the ceiling . |
| 21 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 22 | Rachel groaned as her alarm sounded the following Monday morning and , rolling over , she flicked the button to silence it , then lay for a few minutes staring at the ceiling . |