Example sentences of "[pers pn] stare at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I stare at the handprints on the ceiling . |
| 2 | For a second or two I stare at the words quite blankly . |
| 3 | That means … ’ she stared at the hedges , ‘ they 'd be on the other side of the hedge . |
| 4 | She stared at the papers in her hand uncomprehendingly . |
| 5 | She stared at the pages , and tried to get interested in levers . |
| 6 | She stared at the contents . |
| 7 | Her host repeated that she was to order anything that she wanted and she stared at the words on the card , taking none of them in . |
| 8 | Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees . |
| 9 | Wrapped in lace and linen , they stared at the women and girls forbidden to enter the sanctuary . |
| 10 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 11 | He stared at the chrysanthemums . |
| 12 | ‘ Where 've you jokers been ? ’ asked one of them , as he stared at the bits of tree hanging off us . |
| 13 | But he stared at the screens as the pictures sharpened into focus . |
| 14 | He stared at the women . |
| 15 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 16 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 17 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |