Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] 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 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 11 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 12 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 13 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 16 | He shook his head and stared up at the sun now breaking through the blanket of mist . |
| 17 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 18 | Tuppe put his hands behind his head and smiled up at the passing sky . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 22 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 23 | Lying back down on the rumpled bed , she stretched luxuriously , then hooked her hands round the bed-head and stared up at the ceiling , a soft smile on her face . |
| 24 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 25 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 26 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 27 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 28 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 29 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 30 | Corbett leaned back against the bolster and stared up at the ceiling . |