Example sentences of "looked up [prep] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seb looked up towards the manor house and saw a dancing orange light flickering erratically at one of the upstairs windows . |
| 2 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 3 | The big one looked up at the night sky , seeking inspiration . |
| 4 | Switching off , Dalgliesh looked up at the oil portrait of his maternal great-grandfather , the Victorian bishop , robed but unmitred , his arms in their billowing lawn sleeves confidently resting on the arms of the chair . |
| 5 | He looked up at the apple tree and replied , ‘ It makes no fucking difference , Piper , where you dig it . |
| 6 | At one minute to air , Scott grinned across to the other newscaster , looked up at the control room , and nodded . |
| 7 | She looked up at the bedroom ceiling , where a pale stain recalled a burst pipe nearly fifteen months ago . |
| 8 | I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me . |
| 9 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 10 | Nick looked up from the backgammon board . |
| 11 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 12 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 13 | Robyn looked up from the kitchen sink and placed a washed plate on to the draining-board . |
| 14 | DeVore looked up from the wei chi board and smiled . |
| 15 | Piper O'Rourke looked up from the shift supervisor 's desk as a dishevelled and embarrassed Alex Bannen walked into the Belial Base Operations Room , followed by his son . |
| 16 | Lucenzo looked up from the coffee machine warily . |
| 17 | Matthew looked up from the picnic basket as though aware of her intent , serious gaze . |
| 18 | But Pauline Woolgrove , chief sterling trader , looked up from the dealing tickets for the several hundred million pound deals her desk had successfully completed during the night . |
| 19 | She looked up from the ID card , then handed it across . |