Example sentences of "stare [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the moment when every single guest turned to stare avidly towards the door , with murmurs and gasps , at a series of startling arrivals . |
| 2 | She swung round to stare wordlessly at the driver of the utility truck , who now leaned nonchalantly in the doorway . |
| 3 | Carolyn continued to stare rigidly through the window . |
| 4 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 5 | You worked for him , ’ she prompted when Mrs McMahon only continued to stare worriedly at the package . |
| 6 | So he had lowered himself to sit beside her and together they had stared wordlessly towards the horizon . |
| 7 | Watching him stare gloomily at the table , Lucy said impulsively , ‘ Perhaps I could help . |
| 8 | I stare glumly at the coinbox . |
| 9 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 10 | Here he would suddenly stare straight into the camera lens in the way he had seen so many politicians do , and say , ‘ I challenge any red-blooded Englishman who really feels . |
| 11 | Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination . |
| 12 | No wonder the old boy stares obliquely off the back cover like a guilty-looking Archie Andrews . |
| 13 | Now the school bus , full of disappointed kids , wends it 's way twice daily down a country lane lined with equally disappointed farmers who stare wistfully into the distance , recalling the heady days of four-legged Formula 1 racing ! |
| 14 | Hale 's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer , a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture . |
| 15 | When listening to someone talking , a Dowayo stares gravely at the floor , rocks backwards and forwards and murmurs ‘ Yes ’ , ‘ It is so ’ , ‘ Good ’ every five seconds or so . |
| 16 | I stare again at the saddlebag , feeling sick . |
| 17 | Big brown eyes stare bleakly into the distance , the thousand-yard stare of so many kids in this war . |
| 18 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 19 | " Just look at them limbs ! " breathed Con , staring rapturously at the dog 's muscular thighs . |
| 20 | Adam stood by her , staring eagerly through the gloom . |
| 21 | She was sucking her knee again , staring thoughtfully over the lake . |
| 22 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
| 23 | Tolonen bowed again , then sat , staring pointedly at the folder in Li Yuan 's lap . |
| 24 | No hair-stroking or sighing or staring sorrowfully at the ceiling , not for her . |
| 25 | Graham puts an arm around my shoulder and swivels me until I am staring squarely at the stage . |
| 26 | There were a couple of two children , a girl barely past the toddler stage in a sunbonnet and ruffled dress , and a much older boy , all arms and legs and ferocious scowl , staring pugnaciously at the camera . |
| 27 | As Jane wandered around the room , poking in the cupboards , examining the small but luxurious bathroom , Patrick stood by the window staring absently into the Green . |
| 28 | Kidd glanced across at the cornered Volkswagen , its terrified inhabitant , the three FBI men examining the empty attaché case , two more Yankees standing back and staring hopefully at the sky , and three of his colleagues trying to take statements . |
| 29 | They sat staring glumly at the dirt . |
| 30 | Staring balefully from the 30-year-old 's office wall are pictures of his six predecessors . |