Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the ceiling " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overseer squinted up at the ceiling . |
| 2 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 3 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 4 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 5 | She glanced up at the ceiling once , as if in appreciation of the solution to a tough puzzle that she 'd been unable to crack without help ; the tile was still stuck in the open position , and Charlie was in no state to clamber up there and fix it . |
| 6 | Kebbel stared up at the ceiling . |
| 7 | He lay in bed , for some time , and stared up at the ceiling trying to puzzle it out . |
| 8 | Maxham stared up at the ceiling . |
| 9 | Harry stared up at the ceiling and followed with his eye the pattern of the coving . |
| 10 | As they lay on the great four poster bed , their bodies entwined , Maude almost lost in Cranston 's great fat folds , Sir John stared up at the ceiling , brushing his wife 's hair with his cheek , listening to her chattering about this and that . |
| 11 | Corbett leaned back against the bolster and stared up at the ceiling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 14 | He looked up at the ceiling as if expecting to see him floating there . |
| 15 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 16 | Rory looked up at the ceiling . |
| 17 | Jimmy looked up at the ceiling when he heard it . |
| 18 | She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass . |
| 19 | Twoflower looked up at the ceiling . |
| 20 | He looked up at the ceiling . |
| 21 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
| 22 | He looked up at the ceiling . |
| 23 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |