Example sentences of "stared back at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 2 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 3 | She stared at the doll which Nanny had put on the shelf , and the doll stared back at her with cold blue eyes . |
| 4 | Ronni stared back at her with a sense of helpless inevitability , suddenly , with a shiver , putting two and two together . |
| 5 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 6 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
| 7 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 8 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 9 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 10 | His reflection stared back at him with eyes that were big and dark in a small-boned face . |
| 11 | I sat forward and stared back at him with all the strength of my pioneering ancestors . |
| 12 | They stared back at him with dull eyes . |
| 13 | Its mask-face stared back at him with empty eyes . |
| 14 | Harry stared back at him with wild , wary eyes , the lids drooping a little with weariness . |
| 15 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 16 | Lisa stared back at him in sudden speechless misery . |
| 17 | She stared back at him in wide-eyed horror , still weakened by the desire he had ignited , horribly afraid he might be speaking only the truth . |