Example sentences of "staring at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at myself in the mirror . |
| 2 | I flush the lot down the toilet , staring at myself in the mirror , trembling . |
| 3 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 4 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 5 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 6 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 7 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 8 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 9 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 10 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 11 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 12 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 13 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 14 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 15 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 16 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 17 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 18 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 19 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 20 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
| 21 | Fabbiano was standing in front of her , staring at her like a disapproving schoolmaster . |
| 22 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
| 23 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 24 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 25 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 26 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 27 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 28 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 29 | He was leaning forward across the table , staring at me with a sort of frustrated belligerence . |
| 30 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |