Example sentences of "sat [coord] stare [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesse sat and stared into the flames , seeing faces in the patterns . |
| 2 | He sat and stared at the desk in front of him , the creamy whorls in the wood , the tanned grain . |
| 3 | She sat and stared at the view , while he opened the trunk and lifted out the sheet , complete with its light-brown rose of blood . |
| 4 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
| 5 | Alexandra sat and stared at the paper in silence . |
| 6 | She sat and stared along the Edge , down into the dale , not bothering to strain her ears and listen to the radio , because she knew it was pointless . |