Example sentences of "be staring at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they 're staring at me in front of me in my diary . |
| 2 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 3 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 4 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 5 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 6 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 7 | The eyes seemed to be staring at him with peculiar intensity , as though he were a rare specimen whose every move must be observed . |
| 8 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 9 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 10 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |
| 11 | No one moved , they were staring at him in astonishment . |
| 12 | Mandeville was staring at me as if trying to read my thoughts . |
| 13 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 14 | Granny was staring at me with her eyes wide open . |
| 15 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 16 | He looked towards Peg , who was staring at him with undisguised loathing . |
| 17 | Suddenly he realized that everyone in the queue was staring at him with frank interest and uninhibited hostility . |
| 18 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 19 | It was sitting on the great high-backed chair by the fire , and it was staring at him with hate in its small red eyes . |
| 20 | It was staring at him with hate . |
| 21 | It was staring at him with hate . |
| 22 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 24 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 25 | Zen glanced at Ellen , who was staring at him in horrified disbelief . |
| 26 | Joe followed his mother into the room , and they stood looking at Martin , who had his back to the empty grate now and was staring at them as if he was n't seeing them . |
| 27 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |
| 28 | Alyssia sat up quickly and looked at Piers , who was staring at her with that perpetual look of lazy mockery on his face . |
| 29 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 30 | Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control . |