Example sentences of "looked up at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 2 | As the rocks flashed into furnace heat he looked up at the dragon that now occupied more than half the cell . |
| 3 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 4 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 5 | Jimmy looked up at the ceiling when he heard it . |
| 6 | William looked up at the clock and saw that it was nearing four o'clock . |
| 7 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 8 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 9 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 10 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 11 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |
| 12 | She looked past the strolling holidaymakers at the gaily-painted shops along the front , then looked up at the hillside and , beyond it , the Wall , towering over all . |
| 13 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |
| 14 | Willie looked up at the shadow that the man 's body was casting across her face . |
| 15 | The other two were — ’ he looked up at the roof as he struggled for the word ‘ — how you say , scared of him ? |
| 16 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 17 | Chen looked up at the camera and made the hand sign Liu Chang had taught him . |
| 18 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 19 | Carol looked up at the weathercock as the car drew up at her house in the cobbled square . |