Example sentences of "gaze [adv] at the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 He stood by the fireplace , gazing despairingly at the mouthpiece of the telephone .
2 I went on my way , gazing anew at the beauties of the course .
3 We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats .
4 The coroner , gazing longingly at the jugs of claret , was about to protest .
5 I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky .
6 Stephen lay flat , gazing out at the patterns of sunlight , his chin resting on the backs of his hands .
7 Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath .
8 With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands .
9 Leon gazed intently at the line of adolescent faces .
10 He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes .
11 WITH bulging eyes and pounding heart , the young speed-lover gazes admiringly at the object of his desire .
12 Lying on her back , stretched flat beneath the sheet , she gazed abstractedly at the oblong of high , cobalt-blue sky framed in the window .
13 Standing at the E end , gaze upwards at the conception of space created by Peter Parler with his fine net vault of 1367 .
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