Example sentences of "gaze up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 2 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 3 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 6 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 7 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 8 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 9 | Arranging the pillows against the padded head-rest , she slid down into the soft cocoon and , lying flat on her back , gazed up at the deckhead . |
| 10 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 11 | They walked towards the castle , and Jessamy gazed up at the towers and battlements , and the great walls that loomed above them . |
| 12 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 13 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 14 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 15 | Robyn gazed up at the billowing white clouds and a longing for Luke 's touch , unlike anything she had ever felt before , overwhelmed her completely — her whole being ached with the desire to be held in his arms , to feel the strength and comfort and warmth of his body close to hers . |
| 16 | Zen gazed up at the shelves loaded with rows of books as uniform as bricks . |
| 17 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 18 | Gazed up at the clear evening sky and slouched away without his coat . |
| 19 | Tuppe gazed up at the crumbling façade . |
| 20 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 21 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 22 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 23 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 24 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 25 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 26 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 27 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 28 | God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease … |
| 29 | Hundreds of people are standing around , gazing up at the indicator and waiting for the platform of their train to be flashed up . |
| 30 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |