Example sentences of "stare at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother . |
| 2 | He stares at the door and his eyes lose focus . |
| 3 | She just stares at the floor and rocks . |
| 4 | It stares at the windowlight and can not make it out . |
| 5 | I stare at the towel and I am frightened . |
| 6 | His favourite places to be were the chestnut leaf table and the top of the mahogany tallboy under the landing window on which he lay for hours , staring at the peaks and plateaux of the moor . |
| 7 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 8 | They lounge round my chair now , staring at the chaplain and licking their lips . |
| 9 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 10 | McDunn is staring at the floor and turning the gold B&H packet over and over on the table . |
| 11 | A small bouncy couple in their fifties got out , staring at the lights and the screens round Angela Morgan 's car , and came over to them with all the confidence of the middle-class member of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme . |
| 12 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 13 | She held each one before her , staring at the patterns and the shape . |
| 14 | Then we stagger to our feet and pick our clothes off the floor , and sit and drool into our glass , puffing on a pensive perfecto , and staring at the tabloid and all its gruesome crap . |
| 15 | Forester was staring at the cottages and the cars , his fists bunched up hard , trembling with rage . |
| 16 | They all stood as if rooted to the spot , staring at the Monument and its two occupants . |
| 17 | While I got us some bread and butter and milk he sat on the floor with his great head bent , staring at the carpet and tracing its patterns with his forefinger . |
| 18 | ‘ Essen fertig ? ’ he asked , staring at the plate and the rejected lump of fat . |
| 19 | ‘ By gum , little missy , an' I believe you 're right an' all ! ’ said the driver , staring at the bridge and turning quite pale . |
| 20 | I spent most of the day staring at the walls and ceiling and wondering when the next meal would come . |
| 21 | He never made an effort to look for a job , but would sit for hours , staring at the television and through it without seeing . |
| 22 | The magician turned , stared at the cat and said something in a strange language . |
| 23 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 24 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 25 | I stared at the road and was not really surprised by the discovery that I recognized the man in a grey suit crossing with a police-sergeant . |
| 26 | Wrapped in lace and linen , they stared at the women and girls forbidden to enter the sanctuary . |
| 27 | He lay on his back , as on so many previous nights , and stared at the ceiling and thought . |
| 28 | Nicandra stared at the food and its arrangement — croûtons on the chicken , toast , butter , even a salad , no Pommes Anna , of course , but a glass of wine and a glass of water , and all the china matching . |
| 29 | Lancaster stared at the superintendent and gulped . |
| 30 | The sentry picked up the tags , stared at the photos and at our faces . |