Example sentences of "stared [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while I stared into the clockface of an antique charity-box . |
| 2 | Instead the little girl stared into the beam of sunlight that fell across the kitchen table . |
| 3 | He quit French football when he was banned for throwing a ball at a referee , an incident allegedly compounded when he stared into the face of each member of the disciplinary committee and called them idiots , one by one . |
| 4 | Rex stared into the face of his mirror image . |
| 5 | Andy merely stared in the direction of the anonymous photographer but his eyes were murderous . |
| 6 | An unusually mad-eyed Gedge stared from the cover of NME dated January 14 , 1989 . |
| 7 | Outside again , Anna stared over the sweep of lawns . |
| 8 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |
| 9 | He stared at the bottom of the door . |
| 10 | Blanche stared at the back of the driver 's head to win time to think . |
| 11 | Zack stared at the assembly of household items lying in the box in his free hand . |
| 12 | Lucasta stared at the pile of library books on the table . |
| 13 | I stared at the mess of faggots round the hearth of the closed kiln , supernumerary now . |
| 14 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 15 | ‘ Fell in the river ? ’ repeated Gus like an indignant echo , and stared at the smear of blood staining his muddy fingers . |
| 16 | They , too , checked and stared at the sight of the river . |
| 17 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 18 | Cleo stared at the scattering of coins . |
| 19 | Unseeing , she stared at the perfection of the exotic plant , hugging her sides in unconscious apprehension , her fingers pressed against her ribs . |
| 20 | He stared at the topknot of red-gold curls , straining to remember . |
| 21 | She stared at the rim of her cup and said tonelessly , ‘ As you 'll have gathered , I was — devastated when I heard Elise had died . |
| 22 | The battalion 's Colonel stared at the thrashing of unseen men in the rye field on the stream 's far bank , then ordered his men to make ready . |
| 23 | Then he stared at the barrier of earth Heather had made along the hayfield side of the fire . |
| 24 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 25 | She stared at the glass of the Tower , where reflections appeared by moments — Fand , Liban , Adam , Fincara . |