Example sentences of "stared [adv] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 2 | He stared grimly round at the crowd of silent watchers . |
| 3 | On the top floor of 32 , Mrs Mackintosh stared nervously out at the dark street . |
| 4 | Ace stared morosely down at the rocks . |
| 5 | Paige said nothing , but stared morosely out at the wall of water . |
| 6 | As the men went out of the door Laura stared glumly over at the young policewoman . |
| 7 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
| 8 | Cranston stared moodily down at the floorboards , scuffing his boots over the polished surface . |
| 9 | She stared unseeingly down at the red stain on the Chester 's blue and green flowered fabric , then gathered her wits to dab at it slowly with her heavy cream damask napkin she took from the table . |
| 10 | From the walls framed aldermen stared blandly down at the gathering of some five hundred local people , mostly women , mostly in their twenties and thirties . |
| 11 | Continuing to stand with his back to her , he stared silently down at the muddy green waters of the River Thames for some moments , before turning slowly around to face her . |
| 12 | They stared silently out at the gentle panorama until their reveries were interrupted by loud barking from the graveyard . |
| 13 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
| 14 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |
| 15 | Thoroughly confused , she turned her head and stared blindly down at the fire . |
| 16 | She stared blankly down at the desk and , when she looked up , the clerk had gone . |
| 17 | Folly stared blankly out at the speeding countryside and tried to work out what her strategy should be . |