Example sentences of "looking up at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 2 | He put out a hand and smoothed the bear 's shaggy head , giving it embarrassed pats , while looking up at the bear-leader as if to say , Is that all right ? |
| 3 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 4 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 6 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 7 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 8 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 9 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 10 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 11 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 12 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 13 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |
| 14 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 15 | ‘ Gngh ? ’ he said , looking up at the woman with a puzzled frown . |
| 16 | Li Yuan sat there , looking up at the image of his father 's father , wondering why he felt so little . |
| 17 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 18 | Leonora jumped out , stood looking up at the house for a few moments more , then ran up the steps to ring the doorbell , laughter bubbling up inside as she anticipated Penry 's surprise at the sight of her . |