Example sentences of "[vb past] up at [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 2 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 3 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 4 | Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch . |
| 5 | He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon . |
| 6 | She stared up at the granite-harsh features , trembling as much from the insidious effect of his hands on her back , pressing her against the male strength of his body , as from her growing anger at his arrogant , hurtful lack of confidence in her … |
| 7 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 8 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 9 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 10 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 11 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 12 | Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead , disappearing up into the dark . |
| 13 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 14 | I stopped , glared up at the wheeling gulls and a couple of thrushes , then got some grass and wiped the yellow-white mess off the front guard . |
| 15 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |