Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] up at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank .
2 She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling .
3 Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief .
4 He was held in a reclining position by his seat-belt , with his head bent back and his mouth open , his eyes staring up at the roof of the car , his right arm hanging straight down , his left snagged on the gear-stick .
5 The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became .
6 They would be young girls growing up at the palace , the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret .
7 On top of the Alice Liddell , the floods swivelled and became searchlights , two broad beams shining up at the roof of the bay and on out into the dark gulf beyond .
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