Example sentences of "and gaze at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 2 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 3 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 4 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |
| 5 | She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro . |
| 6 | He sighed and gazed at the cello . |
| 7 | Carol Jackson rolled onto her back and gazed at the ceiling , aware of the movement from the adjacent room and also of the perspiration that sheathed her body . |
| 8 | He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame , letting it mesmerize him into memory . |
| 9 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 10 | He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about . |
| 11 | And gazed at the cross |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , nothing much , ’ I sighed , slowly raising my head again and gazing at the water . |
| 13 | ‘ I signed a beautiful new actress , ’ he said , leaning on his elbow and gazing at the girl . |
| 14 | Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling . |
| 15 | One of the crewmen of the small boat stood looking out at the city all around him , smoking a cigarette and gazing at the myriad lights . |
| 16 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 17 | But her mother 's letter introduced into her head again that debilitating pressure she had felt in hospital — the feeling which was the opposite of sitting in her watch-tower and gazing at the sky . |
| 18 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |