Example sentences of "he stared [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Scathach waited in the forest , his eyes showing his concern as he stared into the heavens , where black storks flapped and watched the earth from the bare-bone branches .
2 He stared over the shoulders of Alice and Susie and Jill .
3 He stared at the chrysanthemums .
4 ‘ Where 've you jokers been ? ’ asked one of them , as he stared at the bits of tree hanging off us .
5 But he stared at the screens as the pictures sharpened into focus .
6 He stared at the women .
7 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 .
8 Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them .
9 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 .
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