Example sentences of "[conj] staring at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's in love with God , ’ said Lydia , rolling on to her back and staring at the sky . |
| 3 | Monks listened with close attention , biting his lip and staring at the floor . |
| 4 | In the light from the partly-opened curtains , she could see his head above hers , his neck stretched , his eyes open and staring at the wall above the bed-head . |
| 5 | Then we stagger to our feet and pick our clothes off the floor , and sit and drool into our glass , puffing on a pensive perfecto , and staring at the tabloid and all its gruesome crap . |
| 6 | She 's in bed now , lying on her back and staring at the ceiling . |
| 7 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 8 | He quietly closed the door and , leaning his back to it , he dropped his gaze to her upturned face , before tilting his head upwards and staring at the ceiling , his anguished thoughts in turmoil . |
| 9 | They sat in the back of the Dacia for the drive from Otopeni Airport to the outskirts of the city , holding hands and staring at the lights flashing past . |
| 10 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
| 11 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 12 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
| 13 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 14 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
| 15 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 16 | Why are you concerning yourself about these matters ? she queried mentally while staring at the typewriter . |