Example sentences of "[conj] staring at [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And staring at a scene that , at first sight , made the annals of ancient Rome look like a Sunday School picnic … |
| 6 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
| 7 | She 's in bed now , lying on her back and staring at the ceiling . |
| 8 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Monks listened with close attention , biting his lip and staring at the floor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's in love with God , ’ said Lydia , rolling on to her back and staring at the sky . |
| 16 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 19 | He collapsed back on the bed , eyes wide and staring at the white ceiling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 22 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
| 23 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 24 | Why are you concerning yourself about these matters ? she queried mentally while staring at the typewriter . |