Example sentences of "gaze [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She frowned , gazing down at the table , she even bared her teeth . |
| 2 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 3 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 4 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 5 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |
| 6 | Cley rose to his feet and stood gazing down at the councillor . |
| 7 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 8 | The man was standing beside the stream , arms folded , gazing down at the water . |
| 9 | She sat , leaning her cheek on her hand , gazing down at the dog , her flaming hair falling untidily down her back , and over her shoulders , and glistening in the light from the candelabrum on the mantel and the glow of the fire . |
| 10 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 11 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 12 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 13 | From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote . |
| 14 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 15 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 16 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 17 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 18 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 19 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 20 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 21 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 22 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 23 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 24 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |
| 25 | They reached Airman 's Grave and paused together beside its perimeter wall , gazing in at the poignant tribute to one victim of a long-ago conflict , though not as long-ago , it occurred to Derek , as the conflict which had recently extended its crabbed old hand to touch their lives . |
| 26 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 27 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 28 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 30 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |