Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 2 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 5 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 6 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 7 | But this ruse gives a chance for Nestor and the gallery of small time crooks and pimps to be transported to Devil 's Island , an escape on a raft in a storm and end up at the North Pole for a sequence with a dancing penguin and a polar bear , to give the show a Christmas gloss . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 10 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 11 | Float on my back a bit and stare up at the stars . ’ |
| 12 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 13 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 14 | He shook his head and stared up at the sun now breaking through the blanket of mist . |
| 15 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 16 | Tuppe put his hands behind his head and smiled up at the passing sky . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 19 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 20 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 21 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 24 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 25 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 26 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 27 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 28 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |