Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] stars " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 2 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 3 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 4 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 5 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 6 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 7 | Float on my back a bit and stare up at the stars . ’ |
| 8 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 9 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 10 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
| 11 | He wished he was free of Cranston and this matter ; free of Cheapside , back at the top of his tower , staring up at the stars . |
| 12 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
| 13 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 14 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 15 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |