Example sentences of "[conj] 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 'T IS a wild wolves ' moon that stares at me
5 ‘ I go into my office and the single product name that stares at me is NEC on my monitor , ’ he said .
6 Then there was the barest rustle of wings in the night and Creggan saw that staring at him , from the next cage , was Slorne , quite silent , but her eyes full of a terrible entreaty .
7 Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity .
8 The only brightness in the room was in her dark old eyes , that stared at me .
9 He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression .
10 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 ’ .
11 ‘ Once , when shopping in London with my friends and daughters , one young man comes and stares at me .
12 And sees their skin like a strange moon , and stares at the grass
13 And stares at its fingers and hears : ‘ Look at that child ! ’
14 Crilly stops and stares at me , and then stands looking ginger and flushed , and he gathers his things .
15 He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something .
16 ‘ Monsieur , everyone stands by the edge of the water and stares at the fish , that 's why we have such ponds .
17 I go and sit on the bench in front of the Christmas tree and stare at it .
18 Why could I never go about arm in arm with two or three others and stare at girls ?
19 Otherwise , we might as well all stay at home and stare at computer terminals .
20 Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 To sit in the stalls and stare at her was bliss , and nothing notable , as everybody else was staring also .
24 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 .
25 Everything became bitingly clear to me as soon as I saw him turn round sharply and stare at me .
26 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 .
27 We both stand and stare at the man , and at the blood spreading amongst the red hair .
28 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 .
29 I stand in front of it and stare at it .
30 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 .
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