Example sentences of "[verb] up at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 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 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 3 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 4 | He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised . |
| 5 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 6 | Charlton had the decency to colour up at the bare-faced plugs for his product that the worthy representing British Gas had been able to lever into his opening peroration . |
| 7 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 8 | It remains a mystery whether this meant he retained hopes that some deal could be stitched up at the Conservative tables in the Members ' Dining Room , or was simply threatening to drown his sorrows . |
| 9 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 10 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 11 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 12 | Julia lay against the hard , red velvet back of the bench , staring up at the painted walls around her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 15 | The dog whined and squirmed with pleasure , jumping up at the two women in turn . |
| 16 | Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch . |
| 17 | He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon . |
| 18 | She stared up at the granite-harsh features , trembling as much from the insidious effect of his hands on her back , pressing her against the male strength of his body , as from her growing anger at his arrogant , hurtful lack of confidence in her … |
| 19 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 20 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 21 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 22 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 23 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 24 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 25 | Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead , disappearing up into the dark . |
| 26 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 27 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 28 | I stopped , glared up at the wheeling gulls and a couple of thrushes , then got some grass and wiped the yellow-white mess off the front guard . |
| 29 | They are encouraged to speak up at the regular meetings for care assistants , which are held three times a week . |
| 30 | They proceeded slowly in the afternoon sun , Victoria content to gaze up at the massed conifers as they passed and listen to the rhythmic grating of the eight small horse-shoes on the roadway . |