Example sentences of "[conj] stared [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |
| 2 | Artemis , down on her knees , just turned round and stared for a moment , before Rosie took her hand and pulled her to her feet . |
| 3 | They flung each other off and stared for an instant , each of them aware that he was known , each conscious that this recognition made many things plain . |
| 4 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |
| 5 | He chewed and stared to the south , where his precious parchment sheets might even now be ash , blowing on the storm wind of the new shaman 's power . |
| 6 | Meryl switched it off again and stared across the room , her heart thudding . |
| 7 | Markby stopped and stared across the field . |
| 8 | Culley turned and stared across the site . |
| 9 | When I reached the spot , I breathed in the herb 's mint/ammonia vapours and stared over the landscape . |
| 10 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 11 | I went on through , sliding the heavy plate glass aside to walk on to the humid porch where a morose looking McIllvanney slouched in a cane chair and stared through the insect screens at the darkening sea . |
| 12 | Hari sat up in bed and stared through the window to where the light from the street lamp paled into insignificance against the rising sun . |
| 13 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 14 | Paulette cradled her cup of ale and stared through the open door into the stableyard where chickens pecked at oats and Sharpe 's dog twitched in exhausted sleep . |
| 15 | She turned her back on him and stared through the window . |
| 16 | Benjamin walked into the line of trees and stared through the snow-dripping darkness . |
| 17 | Virginia pulled a face at her sister-in-law , but she was pensive as she leaned back in her chair and stared through the glass conservatory at the manicured lawns and high , shaven box hedges beyond . |
| 18 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She came to his side and stared along the alley at the two men who were standing unwarily outlined in the light of a held lantern . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know what ye mean , ’ Agnes sniffed and stared up the street defiantly , ‘ … and I do n't want to know . ’ |
| 22 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 23 | He sat cross-legged on the ground and stared into the black grid on the front of the radio . |
| 24 | Evelyn stretched out on her back and stared into the dark , trying to make sense of the day 's events . |
| 25 | Alec turned on his back and stared into the darkness . |
| 26 | He lifted him up absently , sat in the armchair and stared into the open range . |
| 27 | He settled himself as best he could between the metal wall and a heavy bundle of wires , and stared into the darkness . |
| 28 | Jesse sat and stared into the flames , seeing faces in the patterns . |
| 29 | Little Billy flicked his head round and stared into the everlasting gloom and doom of the forest . |
| 30 | She moved into the drawing-room and stared into the fire , tears misting her eyes . |