Example sentences of "gazed [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote . |
| 2 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 3 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 4 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 5 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |
| 6 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 9 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 10 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 14 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 15 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 16 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 17 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 20 | Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath . |
| 21 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 22 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 23 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 24 | As the door closed behind him , Hilary gazed back at the paint chart , feeling abandoned and lost . |
| 25 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |