Example sentences of "[conj] staring at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then there was the barest rustle of wings in the night and Creggan saw that staring at him , from the next cage , was Slorne , quite silent , but her eyes full of a terrible entreaty . |
| 4 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
| 5 | She 's in bed now , lying on her back and staring at the ceiling . |
| 6 | He was wearing a tin helmet and staring at something on the wall , a picture . |
| 7 | They were sitting and staring at him in complete absorption . |
| 8 | After we had been locked in I spent the evening making preparations with Malleson 's help : sewing on buttons , dubbining my boots , making a pillow case into a rucksack and staring at a map with unreal names on it like Danzig and Berlin . |
| 9 | The man with the corkscrew curls had been hanging round , listening and staring at Thomas Clarkson . |
| 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 | At home , I mooched about in a pair of basketball boots mended with a bicycle repair kit , eating ketchup on bread , and staring at a wart on my finger the size and texture of a tiny cauliflower . |
| 12 | It 's no secret that I do n't enjoy people stopping and staring at me . |
| 13 | Philosophers need to stop procrastinating and staring at their navels and answer questions like the one above with a definite answer . |
| 14 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Albert sat , hugging his knees , and staring at nothing . |
| 18 | She had a nasty habit of simply appearing and staring at him . |
| 19 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There were some young lasses in the Chilli [ Chillingham Arms ] , they were talking about my tattoos and that and staring at me , so I had a fight with one of them . |
| 22 | He lay in bed , drinking hot gin-and-water , and staring at her . |
| 23 | Monks listened with close attention , biting his lip and staring at the floor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's in love with God , ’ said Lydia , rolling on to her back and staring at the sky . |
| 27 | Through the open door I could see Harry hanging on to the horse 's head and staring at me with frightened eyes . |
| 28 | He stooped over the sink , leaning heavily on locked arms , and staring at his hands , flattened against the bottom of the bowl . |
| 29 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 30 | 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 . |