Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 2 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 3 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 4 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 5 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 6 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 7 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 8 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 9 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 10 | Once more on his feet and staring up at the bell rope , Jasper said , ‘ D' you know what I 'd like ? |
| 11 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 12 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 13 | But this ruse gives a chance for Nestor and the gallery of small time crooks and pimps to be transported to Devil 's Island , an escape on a raft in a storm and end up at the North Pole for a sequence with a dancing penguin and a polar bear , to give the show a Christmas gloss . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 16 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 17 | Float on my back a bit and stare up at the stars . ’ |
| 18 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 19 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 20 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 21 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 22 | He shook his head and stared up at the sun now breaking through the blanket of mist . |
| 23 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 24 | Tuppe put his hands behind his head and smiled up at the passing sky . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 26 | ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 29 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 30 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |