Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 2 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 3 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 6 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 7 | This lunchtime we 're missing a Co-op beer-tasting and nosh up at the excellent Dragon House Chinese restaurant in Newcastle these politicians have much for which to answer . |
| 8 | At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time . |
| 9 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 10 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 11 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 14 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 15 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
| 16 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
| 17 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 18 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 23 | The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her . |
| 24 | Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch . |
| 25 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 26 | Still feeling perturbed , he went back into his house , lay on his pallet bed and stared up at the flaking ceiling . |
| 27 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 28 | The deep , concerned voice broke through the dark haze of unconsciousness , and she blinked and stared up at the shadowy image of Guy Sterne 's face , bending over her . |
| 29 | Tuppe put his hands behind his head and smiled up at the passing sky . |
| 30 | Make sure that the ladder you are working on is secure and put up at the correct angle ( 1 metre out for every 4 metres up the wall ) . |