Example sentences of "stare [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sikh pattern-cutter 's abdomen is examined with a distinctly shaky hand that tries to elicit the signs of a possible perforated ulcer as his family of six stare on with fixed incomprehension . |
| 2 | On the wall that passes for a kitchen , Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas stare down in fastidious disapproval at Anya 's batterie de cuisine , unfit for whipping up their favourite hashish fudge . |
| 3 | Scores of dazzling white Moorish dwellings stare down from this hilltop village at the shimmering Mediterranean , protected by the impressive peaks of the Sierra Cabrera . |
| 4 | Below him , hand in hand , staring up with lively interest , were Jenny and Antony . |
| 5 | Then she spun , staring back at that hard-faced , powerful man , and felt her heart beat with abrupt violence . |
| 6 | Finnan was staring at Madra , and Riven could see her staring back with one eyebrow raised , eyes steady . |
| 7 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 8 | He stopped , quite sharply , staring at the audience , which stared back in dumfounded silence . |
| 9 | She sighed deeply and stared around in abject despair . |