Example sentences of "stare at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 2 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 3 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 4 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 5 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 6 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 7 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 8 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 9 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 10 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 11 | He was leaning forward across the table , staring at me with a sort of frustrated belligerence . |
| 12 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 13 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 14 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 15 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 16 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 17 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 18 | He stared at her with a dead-pan face and she was not sure whether he was serious or not . |
| 19 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 20 | The men were gratified and returned his greeting , but stared at me with a mixture of impudence and hostility . |
| 21 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 22 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |