Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] stare at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jotan leaned out over the rail and stared at the movement at the foot of the stairs . |
| 2 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 3 | Aaron sat on the roof and stared at the sky . |
| 4 | Wandering out again like an unhappy ghost , she went into her workroom , turned on the light and stared at the bench . |
| 5 | She laid down the telephone and stared at the view outside her office window . |
| 6 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 7 | He lifted the lid and stared at the keys a while . |
| 8 | ‘ Monsieur , everyone stands by the edge of the water and stares at the fish , that 's why we have such ponds . |
| 9 | I took another one and then just sat there , warming my hands on the mug and staring at the coffee . |
| 10 | He whipped at his horse with the reins and stared at the wood ahead , trying to drag it closer by sheer willpower . |
| 11 | Cowley walked to the bed and stared at the silent man . |
| 12 | Marion sat on the bed and stared at the wallpaper ( roses — so pretty — she had chosen it herself ) without seeing it . |
| 13 | When the servants left she went and sat on the sofa and stared at the attractive rug . |
| 14 | She opened the door and stared at the grotesque couple . |
| 15 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 16 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
| 17 | She went around the lobby formed by the bathroom and stared at the dusk flat . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought that was what you said , ’ he muttered , then , drawing in his breath , he put his head back against the pillows and stared at the ceiling . |
| 19 | He sat down on the plinth supporting the pumps and stared at the dark glass of the office for a while . |
| 20 | She picked up the binoculars and stared at the front door of the plane . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She picked up a book and stared at the firelight , hoping that Finn might get bitten by something slightly venomous . |