Example sentences of "she look up " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 2 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 3 | And she looks up to me for what she sees as my drive , my opinionated wit . |
| 4 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 5 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 6 | and when she looks up it is from amid |
| 7 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 8 | She has serious injuries — her head is bleeding as she looks up : ‘ Do n't worry , ’ she says , ‘ I 'm only volunteering ’ |
| 9 | And as the water goes she sees a nail in the water and she looks up and she see Jesus going like that . |
| 10 | Deliberately ignoring him , she began to pick straw out of her clothes , and only when she was satisfied that she had removed every last one , and had taken in all there was to take in about her immediate surroundings , did she look up at him . |
| 11 | Jay found Lucy 's eyes on her sometimes when she looked up , but there was little enough time to meet . |
| 12 | At the third corpse there was a faint click , and she looked up as the music stopped . |
| 13 | She looked up again and saw Simon 's eyes were shrinking , his gaze shifting , avoiding hers . |
| 14 | All this time Mrs. Wexford had placidly eating ginger biscuits , but now she looked up and said calmly : |
| 15 | She looked up and raised her straight , rather heavy , black eyebrows . |
| 16 | She looked up , the blue searchlights glowing . |
| 17 | He gazed at her bent head as she read through her notes , and she looked up and smiled faintly at him . |
| 18 | She looked up and saw through the smoke — Mr Petrie ! |
| 19 | She looked up at it and lit a cigarette . |
| 20 | At long last she looked up imploringly from the depths of her tiny handbag , which prompted Mark to produce his lighter . |
| 21 | She looked up and her face was only just under control , balanced on the edge of screaming . |
| 22 | She looked up at the curved glass roof overhead , so high and with pigeons on the inside , fluttering amongst the iron girders , trapped inside . |
| 23 | She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice . |
| 24 | Rosie cringed and showed the whites of her eyes when she looked up at her master . |
| 25 | She looked up sharply . |
| 26 | She looked up at Nina and could see that the girl did not recognise her . |
| 27 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
| 28 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 29 | Thunder shook the catamaran as she looked up at him , rain almost blinding her . |
| 30 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |