Example sentences of "and [vb past] up at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
2 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
3 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
4 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
5 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
6 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
7 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
8 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
9 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
10 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
11 | He turned , and glanced up at the clock above the bar . |
12 | Feeling a little embarrassed , he quickly cleared his throat and glanced up at the clock . |
13 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
14 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
15 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
16 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
17 | ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club . |
18 | The conveyance came around the corner , quite recklessly , and pulled up at the sight of him . |
19 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
20 | 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 ? |
21 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
22 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
25 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
26 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
27 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
28 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
29 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
30 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |