Example sentences of "she looked up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 2 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 3 | She looked up at the outline of him , the wild hair and the shadowed eyes . |
| 4 | She looked up at the girl beside her . |
| 5 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 6 | She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass . |
| 7 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 8 | Instinctively she looked up at the sky . |
| 9 | Pushing her way through the hordes of little black boys with bones through their noses , she looked up at the sky . |
| 10 | She looked up at the sky , where vultures were gathering . |
| 11 | She looked up at the clock , wondering if there was time for a pot of tea before lunch , but deciding that the second gong would sound soon , and she could wait . |
| 12 | She looked up at the lorry . |
| 13 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 14 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 15 | Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair . |
| 16 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |
| 17 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 18 | Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks . |
| 19 | She looked up at the rook 's nest and the grey sky beyond , then bent to pick a clump of white winter aconites to take home to Josh . |
| 20 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
| 21 | She looked up at the hill , but the château was invisible from this angle behind its enshrouding of trees . |
| 22 | She looked up at the sound of his voice ; he did n't sound particularly pleased . |
| 23 | She looked up at the bedroom ceiling , where a pale stain recalled a burst pipe nearly fifteen months ago . |
| 24 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 25 | Prodding it experimentally , and finding it quite firm , she looked up over the roof . |
| 26 | She looked up to the ceiling to find him , she looked in spaces too small to hold a bird . |
| 27 | Instead , she looked up to the ceiling from where she got quite a lot of her inspiration . |
| 28 | She looked up to the skyline , where Scathach 's tall form was a silhouette . |
| 29 | She looked up from the minutes she was collating . |
| 30 | She looked up from the ID card , then handed it across . |