Example sentences of "stare at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look away , for all the reasons that people like me , with homes and an income , look away : a mixture of helplessness , guilt and the desire not to stare at a perfect stranger , as it were , in bed . |
| 2 | For many viewers to be invited to stare at a naked child is too complex and disturbing . |
| 3 | He wanted to stare at a free sky . |
| 4 | She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges . |
| 5 | To concentrate on the barons is to stare at the public face . |
| 6 | ‘ Yep , but she 's your girl , ’ said Charlie as he continued to stare at the long-haired blonde who pretended to ignore their attentions . |
| 7 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 8 | She had just read the last paragraph when the kitchen door opened and Matey entered , far earlier than she normally did , to stare at the unlikely scene before her : Dr Neil characteristically leaning back in his wooden Windsor armchair , McAllister sitting on her stool , reading the paper , the used coffee-cups and the empty biscuit plate sitting between them . |
| 9 | He shook his head and continued to stare at the old man , but there was pleading in his voice now . |
| 10 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 11 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
| 12 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 13 | Perhaps now , now she had finally written it down , could stare at the irretrievable words , written in black and white , she would be able to accept the way things had to be , she would have the strength to return . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 15 | You go stupid on yourself for a moment , as the luck wobbles , threatens to fly away and leave you ; you stare at the place where he was , lying curled up , tied up in front of the door ; you stare at the empty stretch of carpet , dumbly , as if staring will help . |
| 16 | I pick up my coffee and stare at the cold dregs . |
| 17 | I lie in my bed and stare at the cracked plaster in the ceiling , the smudges of handprints ( how in the hell did they get there ? ) , and I wonder why I am so afraid . |
| 18 | Maggie was left staring at a closed door , lost for words . |
| 19 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 20 | When I opened my eyes reluctantly , I was staring at a small piece of pavement miles below , between two sloping hills . |
| 21 | As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top . |
| 22 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 23 | And then he started to walk away , leaving me staring at a bare wall . |
| 24 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 25 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 26 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 27 | I was staring at a wall-sized mirror when he walked into the bar . |
| 28 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 30 | I 'd been in the city for too long , too many late nights staring at an empty page : the Muse and I had become jaded with each other . |