Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 2 | I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’ |
| 3 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 4 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 5 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 6 | And racing along with the flood , tossed from peak to peak , plunged into troughs , was Mr Bishop , arms flung wide , eyes open , staring up at the sky . |
| 7 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As she got in , Maggie glanced up at the sky . |
| 10 | Outside again she glanced up at the sky which was a pale shade of blue . |
| 11 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 12 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 13 | Grimly , Delaney looked up at the sky . |
| 14 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 15 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 16 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 17 | Jonna looked up at the sky , now rapidly darkening . |
| 18 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 19 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 20 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 21 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 22 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 23 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 24 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 25 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 26 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 27 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 28 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 30 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |