Example sentences of "stare at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nell continued to stare at the sea for a very long time .
2 The tweed-coated figure continued to stare at the page of the book to the left of his plate , ignoring his companion .
3 Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers .
4 The Prince shook an admonishing finger at the Rifleman then took out his telescope to stare at the battery of French guns .
5 He raised his right hand to silence her and continued to stare at the tabletop before him , head cocked to one side .
6 We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement .
7 She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her .
8 Wide-eyed , her throat suddenly dry , she turned her head to stare at the length of his body .
9 He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people .
10 And I stare at the handprints on the ceiling .
11 And so we stare at the pit in the earth and think we both do and do n't know what sculpture is ’ .
12 I stare at the back of the driver 's head .
13 I hold my shivering knees and stare at the shadows on the walls .
14 You stare at the gear in the drawer , a glow in your belly spreading through you .
15 Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation .
16 There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse .
17 She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river .
18 Roy was standing in the doorway , staring at the kitchen as if he was in the wrong house .
19 She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself .
20 ‘ The exploitation of workers ; the disruption of native cultures ; evidence of the military-industrial ethos , you will walk like a fool amongst other fools : a tourist , staring at the remnants of the past , memorials to worn-out cultures , galleries dedicated to the ostentation and decadence of slave-masters .
21 Emily sat in her father 's study , staring at the mass of figures that danced before her eyes .
22 Her fingers tried uselessly to stem the flow of flaming tresses , and Benedict , mesmerised , stood with the tray stupidly clasped in his hands , staring at the mass of struggling copper , bright and flickering like fire in the glow from outside .
23 He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment .
24 They were both lying on their backs staring at the top of the cavity .
25 as if the children had n't heard her or were not aware of her presence , they all ran back towards the side of the house , and there they stood as a group , staring at the man with the short legs and the girl with hair that looked almost white , walking towards their mother .
26 The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time .
27 In fact , she was staring at the ceiling of the escape pod .
28 Suddenly he jumped to his feet , staring at the wall opposite the door .
29 Dame Ermengilde , even though she was in the presence of royalty , sat staring at the wall opposite her .
30 In the light from the partly-opened curtains , she could see his head above hers , his neck stretched , his eyes open and staring at the wall above the bed-head .
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