Example sentences of "stare [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 2 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 3 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 4 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 5 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 6 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 7 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 8 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 9 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 12 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 13 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 14 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 15 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 16 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 17 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 18 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 19 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 22 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 23 | Staring around him at the butchery , he says , ‘ What a mess . |
| 24 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 25 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 26 | Masklin stared behind him into the tunnel of wires . |
| 27 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 28 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
| 29 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 30 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |