Example sentences of "looked up at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 2 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 3 | She looked up at the girl beside her . |
| 4 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 5 | He looked up at the ceiling as if expecting to see him floating there . |
| 6 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
| 7 | He looked up at the windows of the house . |
| 8 | The wind was strengthening in their faces , and more than one man looked up at the sky in puzzlement . |
| 9 | Victoria , who was by now very tired , looked up at the tree with a doubtful pout . |
| 10 | He looked up at the window of the nearest compartment . |
| 11 | She looked up at the outline of him , the wild hair and the shadowed eyes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Shaking the water from her matted hair and sodden white lab coat while drawing a series of relieved gulps of air , the woman looked up at the Marines with a weak smile . |
| 14 | Then he looked up at the portrait of Sir Humphrey Agnew and smiled . |
| 15 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
| 16 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 17 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 18 | But now … hands and handkerchiefs and newspapers waved from every window of the train , and smiling faces looked up at the children on the fence . |
| 19 | She looked up at the sound of his voice ; he did n't sound particularly pleased . |
| 20 | He looked up at the mention of a nigger and was now eyeing her , as if raking through his memory . |
| 21 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 22 | We paralleled Crow Road for a bit , and stopped , waiting for signals , outside Jordanhill station ; I looked up at the rear of the flats which fronted Crow Road , trying to work out which was Janice Rae 's . |
| 23 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
| 24 | I looked up at the jumble of rooftops with their abundance of chimney-pots , the florid iron bal-conies at the dormer windows . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He looked up at the circle of menacing faces surrounding him . |
| 27 | He looked up at the face with the dark hair above him . |
| 28 | Sharpe looked up at the weathercock on the stable roof and saw the wind had backed southerly . |