Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] gaze at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows . |
| 3 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He walked into the lobby without a word , entered the kitchen and gazed at the four prisoners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He raised the lid and gazed at the brightly coloured pots . |
| 8 | A devotee praying before the idol and gazing at the God 's face is thus influenced by an electro-magnetic field which interacts with the devotee 's own bioenergy field . |
| 9 | Five years ago , the cabinetmaker John Nethercott and his wife Annie stood in the drizzle and gazed at the leprous grey hulk of Upper House , Discoed . |
| 10 | ‘ I signed a beautiful new actress , ’ he said , leaning on his elbow and gazing at the girl . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He wondered if Heather , sitting in the same chair and gazing at the same view , had somehow bequeathed to him this reaction , or if it were entirely his own , a product of the self-pity Kingdom had identified . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about . |
| 16 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |
| 17 | Joseph fingered his rifle and gazed at the pretty little muntjac . |
| 18 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |
| 19 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |