Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] stare [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam stopped walking and stared at her . |
| 2 | She had a nasty habit of simply appearing and staring at him . |
| 3 | And I would n't like to cause the entire population to come and stare at me every day . ’ |
| 4 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 5 | Markby stopped and stared across the field . |
| 6 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 7 | He was but stopped and stared at me , then turned and ran in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | They stopped and stared at me . |
| 9 | Christine stopped and stared at him . |
| 10 | Berdichev stopped and stared at him a moment . |
| 11 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
| 12 | He stopped and stared at her rather alarmingly , his eyes running over her from head to foot . |
| 13 | Carolyn stopped and stared at her . |
| 14 | ‘ I — ’ She stopped and stared at him . |
| 15 | She left to have a baby — ’ Miss Vinall stopped and stared at Juliet . |
| 16 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 17 | Matilda followed her , but just inside the doorway of the so-called sitting-room she stopped and stared around her in absolute amazement . |
| 18 | He stopped and stared after them . |
| 19 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 20 | One reason could be because all around them are utterly characterless , uniform , boring , and unmemorable buildings — nothing for them to stand and stare at , to wonder at and dream of — as there was in the heyday of the great stations . |
| 21 | Two fishermen stopped work to stand and stare in amazement . |
| 22 | The man with the corkscrew curls had been hanging round , listening and staring at Thomas Clarkson . |
| 23 | As Hazel came up , all the rabbits turned and stared at him expectantly . |
| 24 | He he could walk down the street without people looking and staring at him . |
| 25 | The rest of the journey she went silent , smoking and staring into the distance until Marler pulled up in front of the HQ of World Security in Threadneedle Street . |
| 26 | Rachel too stopped and stared at Sybil . |
| 27 | The coroner suddenly stopped and stared into his wine cup , and the good humour drained from his face . |
| 28 | He turned to cover it , then stopped and stared in horror . |
| 29 | Alexei knew that he had always been aware of her — they were not strangers by any means — but now he straightened and stared in open admiration . |
| 30 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |