Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 32 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 33 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 34 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 35 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
| 38 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
| 39 | When they had gone , Peskova turned and looked up at the house again . |
| 40 | The servants woke , and two gentlemen , who were passing in the road below , stopped and looked up at the house . |
| 41 | On the first morning I stepped onto the chalet balcony and looked up at the mountain . |
| 42 | Scott walked outside and looked up at the rocket . |
| 43 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
| 44 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 45 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
| 46 | Charlie took a pace backwards and stared up at the name above the shop . |
| 47 | He shook his head and stared up at the sun now breaking through the blanket of mist . |
| 48 | He lay in bed , for some time , and stared up at the ceiling trying to puzzle it out . |
| 49 | Corbett leaned back against the bolster and stared up at the ceiling . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The coroner wiped his nose on the back of his hand and stared up at the sky . |
| 52 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 53 | He took them out , stopped and stared up at the ravens cawing raucously against the blue sky . |
| 54 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 55 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 56 | ‘ That last hedge you jumped , ’ her father said , breaking another seemingly endless silence as he stopped and stared up at the facade of the great house . |
| 57 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 58 | I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker . |
| 59 | It began as greed to steal and ended up at the point where they really were n't concerned about who they shot or why . |
| 60 | In July he was thrown out of his hostel and ended up at the Jews ’ Temporary Shelter in the East End . |