Example sentences of "gazed [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 3 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 4 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 5 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 6 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 7 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 8 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 9 | Tuppe gazed up at the crumbling façade . |
| 10 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 11 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 12 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gazed up at the clear evening sky and slouched away without his coat . |
| 15 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Lindsey found her hands gripping the deck rail as she gazed out at the golden track made by the fading sun on the water . |
| 19 | The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener 's informed eye . |
| 20 | As Ashley gazed out at the little boy , her chin took on a stubborn slant . |
| 21 | Before boarding , Elisabeth stood on the harbour wall , gazed out on the wrinkled asphalt expanse and took note of the spume that rose , here and there , from unsettled waves . |
| 22 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 23 | Laura took in the boundless wealth surrounding her , the possibilities of power , she gazed back at the golden coffin of the false messiah and back at Jonathan . |
| 24 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 25 | Charles was handing round the silver tray of champagne , his smile one of pure pleasure and pride as he gazed round at the assembled family in the conservatory . |