Example sentences of "[noun sg] gaze [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large picture of the Sacred Heart gazed down at her , the blue-eyed Saviour with his smooth red hair and silky beard looked faintly sorrowful . |
| 2 | For two weeks Uli and I have spent every daylight hour gazing up at it , seeing it in its flesh and bone , so to speak , for the first time — yet so utterly familiar and loved . ’ |
| 3 | I was thinking of a little black cat gazing up at me with dim eyes ; Rozanov of I know not what — possibly Ulrike Meinhof . |
| 4 | On the magazine , Jane 's main task was to wrestle with the anglicising of indifferent American short stories , while the particular harpy who was her boss gazed out of the window for ninety per cent of the time . |
| 5 | Tug gazed out of the window at the mist lying in the bottom of the dale and the indistinct grey ridges stretching away from the cottage . |
| 6 | Trollope wrote The Barchester Chronicles during journeys ; on a trip from Moscow to Paris , Stravinsky sketched The Rite of Spring ; Cyril Connolly 's The Unquiet Grave was conceived as the author gazed out of a carriage window . |
| 7 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper . |
| 10 | ‘ I promise you that we will have a long talk — and sort out everything between us , once and for all , ’ he murmured , burying his face in her blonde hair for a moment , before raising himself up on an elbow to gaze down at her lovely face . |
| 11 | He leaned up on one elbow to gaze down at her and instead of Ruth feeling a rush of panic she felt incredibly calm . |
| 12 | She deliberately turned her head to gaze out of the window once more . |
| 13 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |
| 14 | She was stood in the wings refilling the whisky decanter , picturing herself seated at a concert grand on the platform of the Philharmonic Hall — Meredith was in the front row gazing up at her with adoration — when three men walking one behind the other filed through the pass-door into the auditorium . |
| 15 | Staring into the mirror he saw a man gazing back at him ‘ with wrinkles on my forehead and lines on my face as if I were forty . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 18 | The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener 's informed eye . |
| 19 | As the ‘ Wares positioned themselves amongst the household Dunan gazed out on the Circle . |
| 20 | Though he could n't see her , the darkness was a black canvas , and he painted her there to perfection , her beauty gazing down on him . |
| 21 | Entranced by the quiet calm , Polly stood in the cockpit gazing out over the stern . |
| 22 | I found a quiet corner of the deck to gaze up at the moonless sky . |
| 23 | Our last glimpse of Henry Higgins shows his mother gazing down at him , a worried look on her face . |
| 24 | I found Springsteen sitting on the draining-board gazing out of the kitchen window , which I have to open for him so he can come and go as he likes . |
| 25 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 26 | Fiver gazed back at him with eyes that , like a fly 's , seemed larger than his head . |
| 27 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 28 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 29 | Below in the hall came running all the inmates of the house to gaze up at her , their faces stunned . |
| 30 | Theda raised a tear-streaked face to gaze up into the older one above her with loving eyes . |