Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 2 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 3 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 4 | She let go of Adam 's arm and rose ; then looked up at the man who stood there . |
| 5 | She looked past the strolling holidaymakers at the gaily-painted shops along the front , then looked up at the hillside and , beyond it , the Wall , towering over all . |
| 6 | Tubby took one swallow and then looked up at the Colonel . |
| 7 | Who else showed up at the shelter ? ’ |