Example sentences of "stare at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 2 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 3 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 4 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 5 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 7 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 8 | Staring at myself in the mirror . |
| 9 | I flush the lot down the toilet , staring at myself in the mirror , trembling . |
| 10 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 11 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 14 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 15 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 16 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 19 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 20 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 21 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 22 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 23 | He was wearing a tin helmet and staring at something on the wall , a picture . |
| 24 | Ben was crouched at the water 's edge , intensely still , staring at something in the tall , thick rushes to his right . |
| 25 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 26 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 27 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 28 | And she 's sitting in a peculiar way , staring at herself in the mirror . ’ |
| 29 | Dawn Allenby was standing in her coat and headscarf staring at herself in the mirror . |
| 30 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |