Example sentences of "[coord] stare at " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the days , while the man slept , Boy would sleep a little himself , in a chair , in preparation for his nights at The Bar ; but mostly he would stare out of the window at the city , or stare at the television . |
| 2 | Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Once , when shopping in London with my friends and daughters , one young man comes and stares at me . |
| 6 | And sees their skin like a strange moon , and stares at the grass |
| 7 | And stares at its fingers and hears : ‘ Look at that child ! ’ |
| 8 | Crilly stops and stares at me , and then stands looking ginger and flushed , and he gathers his things . |
| 9 | He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something . |
| 10 | ‘ Monsieur , everyone stands by the edge of the water and stares at the fish , that 's why we have such ponds . |
| 11 | I go and sit on the bench in front of the Christmas tree and stare at it . |
| 12 | Why could I never go about arm in arm with two or three others and stare at girls ? |
| 13 | Otherwise , we might as well all stay at home and stare at computer terminals . |
| 14 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 15 | Now canals slap on either side , brimming with garbage and dead wood , an old man sleeps in an oilcan next to a garishly decorated lorry , men in vests and wide trousers , grouped playing cards by the light of oil lamps , raise their heads as the car 's headlights sweep into their precarious privacy , and stare at her . |
| 16 | Instead of telling the silly tart to go and put some knickers on , as you or I would have done , these guys go all sweaty and hot under the collar , and stare at her , gobsmacked and embarrassed . |
| 17 | To sit in the stalls and stare at her was bliss , and nothing notable , as everybody else was staring also . |
| 18 | Usually when I sit and stare at my blank sheets of A4 paper every month , I am trying to think how I can help you with your Duomatic machines . |
| 19 | Everything became bitingly clear to me as soon as I saw him turn round sharply and stare at me . |
| 20 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 21 | We both stand and stare at the man , and at the blood spreading amongst the red hair . |
| 22 | I reach over the palletwood fence and pour water from the long spout into his half-empty ice cream tub , then straighten and stare at the huge , inert body , my mind searching for an excuse to proceed beyond the shed . |
| 23 | I stand in front of it and stare at it . |
| 24 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 25 | I pick up my coffee and stare at the cold dregs . |
| 26 | I lie in my bed and stare at the cracked plaster in the ceiling , the smudges of handprints ( how in the hell did they get there ? ) , and I wonder why I am so afraid . |
| 27 | I excuse myself and stand in the bathroom and stare at my reflection . |
| 28 | I hold my shivering knees and stare at the shadows on the walls . |
| 29 | She wanted to sit here , and stare at this view , which was much better than hospital . |
| 30 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |