Example sentences of "[noun] gaze [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 4 | Zach gazed round at the tiny wooden bed under the eaves . |
| 5 | Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath . |
| 6 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 7 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 8 | Zen gazed up at the shelves loaded with rows of books as uniform as bricks . |
| 9 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 10 | Katherine gazed out at the empty Manhattan streets . |
| 11 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 12 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 13 | They walked towards the castle , and Jessamy gazed up at the towers and battlements , and the great walls that loomed above them . |
| 14 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 15 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |
| 16 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 17 | Tuppe gazed up at the crumbling façade . |
| 18 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 19 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 20 | The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener 's informed eye . |
| 21 | As Ashley gazed out at the little boy , her chin took on a stubborn slant . |
| 22 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 23 | As the door closed behind him , Hilary gazed back at the paint chart , feeling abandoned and lost . |
| 24 | I found a quiet corner of the deck to gaze up at the moonless sky . |
| 25 | From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote . |
| 26 | 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 . |