Example sentences of "gazed [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 3 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 4 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 5 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 6 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 7 | There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features . |
| 8 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 9 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 10 | Her tattered shirt and ancient denims in no way detracted from her tall decorum as she gazed down upon the squat clerical figure . |
| 11 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 12 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 13 | Tuppe gazed up at the crumbling façade . |
| 14 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 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 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 17 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gazed up at the clear evening sky and slouched away without his coat . |
| 20 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 21 | Robyn gazed up into the strong , compelling face . |
| 22 | As he gazed out over the still wet cobblestones , all he could see was the glimmer of lights — lights on the barrack square , lights on the sentry posts at the main gates , lights in the barrack huts , and beyond them the lights of the hospital 's east wing . |
| 23 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 24 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 25 | He gazed out through the curtainless window on to the well-lit , virtually deserted parking-area : only his own red Jaguar and two white police cars . |
| 26 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 27 | Others quietly practised on the putting green or , half-asleep , gazed out at the distant sweep of the Est Sands as though the jogging figure of Eric Liddell and his dog might materialise from ‘ Chariots of Fire ’ . |
| 28 | Lindsey found her hands gripping the deck rail as she gazed out at the golden track made by the fading sun on the water . |
| 29 | The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener 's informed eye . |
| 30 | As Ashley gazed out at the little boy , her chin took on a stubborn slant . |