Example sentences of "[conj] we stared at " in BNC.

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1 When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest .
2 Ellen caught my eye , and we stared at each other for a sympathetic fraction of a second , then I looked away to see that the sticky liquid had sprayed across the teak planks .
3 Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees .
4 " Round again , lads ! " the corporal yelled , and as we stared at him aghast he smiled affectionately .
5 There was a gasp , as we stared at the cream-coloured glutinous substance floating in a thin gruel .
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