Example sentences of "stare at [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 2 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 3 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 4 | Perry stares at her for a moment , and then examines her arm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 7 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 8 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 9 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
| 13 | Fabbiano was standing in front of her , staring at her like a disapproving schoolmaster . |
| 14 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was leaning forward across the table , staring at me with a sort of frustrated belligerence . |
| 18 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 19 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 20 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 21 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | who found me staring at you in a store |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 28 | Alec stared at him for a few seconds , then walked out into the heat and glare of the mid-day sun . |
| 29 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 30 | The face stared at him for a moment , and then looked away . |