Example sentences of "staring at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was left staring at a closed door , lost for words . |
| 2 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 3 | When I opened my eyes reluctantly , I was staring at a small piece of pavement miles below , between two sloping hills . |
| 4 | As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top . |
| 5 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 6 | And then he started to walk away , leaving me staring at a bare wall . |
| 7 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 8 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 9 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 10 | I was staring at a wall-sized mirror when he walked into the bar . |
| 11 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 13 | I 'd been in the city for too long , too many late nights staring at an empty page : the Muse and I had become jaded with each other . |
| 14 | The place was half empty owing to the weather , and Paul sat alone , staring at the engraved letters on the glass between him and the street . |
| 15 | She too was staring at the endless duel , but with considerably more excitement than her replica . |
| 16 | Jessamy found herself staring at the powerful set of his shoulders , and remembered all too clearly that the aura of power was n't just an illusion . |
| 17 | She went slowly into the bedroom and sat by the window , staring at the spectacular scenery outside , and not seeing it . |
| 18 | ‘ She was pregnant , ’ Agnes said , staring at the low coffee-table , not at George . |
| 19 | He rolled over , and she was left staring at the daunting stretch of his broad back . |
| 20 | I stayed on my knees , sitting back on my heels , head bowed , breathing as little as possible , staring at the protruding arrow , thinking the survival programme was too much . |
| 21 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 22 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 23 | George Cowley stood silently staring at the unconscious man . |
| 24 | Reginald remained in the middle of the room staring at the closed door for a moment ; then , his head making small jerks , he turned towards the fire and , leaning his elbow along the mantelshelf , he looked down into the dying embers . |
| 25 | ‘ What a slimeball , ’ Sabrina said , staring at the closed door . |
| 26 | For a few seconds Luce sat staring at the closed door , trying to make sense of this latest development , before looking down at the tray . |
| 27 | About one hour later we sat on the sands staring at the cool sea in front of us , thinking how long it was since we had had a bath . |
| 28 | When Jazz was in bed , lying staring at the strange patterns the lime-tree leaves , illuminated by the lamp-post , made on his bedroom ceiling , his father came up to him , moving softly round the door . |
| 29 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 30 | She took a step nearer , staring at the drunken heap of rubble . |