Example sentences of "stare [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun round from his task at her small query to stare down at her with dark , furious eyes . |
| 2 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 3 | He had a lot of peculiar habits , one of them being to stare hard at you with steely eyes . |
| 4 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 5 | The secret for any cat-phobic individuals who want to keep their distance is to lean towards a cat , stare fixedly at it with wide-open eyes and make agitated hand movements , asking the cat in strident tones to come and sit on their laps . |
| 6 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |
| 7 | He stares out at us with steely blue eyes , his hair neatly twisted into one dark curl on his forehead ; he 's sporting a smart black frock-coat with a neatly-buttoned waistcoat and a full cravat anchored down with an ornate jewelled pin and chain . |
| 8 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 9 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes and froze with horror and disbelief at the sight of a vast creature staring down at her with green eyes each as big as a lilypond . |
| 11 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 12 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 13 | Rune barred her way , staring down at her with puzzled , angry eyes , his breath sawing heavily between his teeth . |
| 14 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 15 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 16 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 17 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 18 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 19 | Warren Caswell turned sharply to find old Lady Usk 's eyes staring up at him from her diminutive height . |
| 20 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 21 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 22 | She just sat there , staring out at us with her face all blank and closed up , as if she could n't see us any more , and as the bus lurched forward we all waved and ran off to our big school up the hill . |
| 23 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 24 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 25 | Staring back at her from her office windowsill was a ‘ dinosaurs head ’ ! |
| 26 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 27 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 28 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One pitched out , hitting the ground with a sickening thud ; Erin yelled , trying to hold on , but she fell too , attempting to roll , but she could n't make it to her feet with one shin-bone staring whitely at her through her pant-leg . |