Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] 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 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 6 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 7 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 8 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 9 | He shook his head and stared up at the sun now breaking through the blanket of mist . |
| 10 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 11 | Tuppe put his hands behind his head and smiled up at the passing sky . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 16 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 17 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 18 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 21 | Corbett leaned back against the bolster and stared up at the ceiling . |
| 22 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 23 | Still feeling perturbed , he went back into his house , lay on his pallet bed and stared up at the flaking ceiling . |
| 24 | Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 27 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 28 | I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker . |
| 29 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 30 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |