Example sentences of "look up [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 2 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 3 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 4 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 5 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 6 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 7 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 8 | ‘ Lot of paper in tonight , is n't there ? ’ said Bartlemas , looking up to the Circle and Gallery . |
| 9 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 10 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 11 | But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table . |
| 12 | Look up at the rooftops and you will see things you have never noticed before . |
| 13 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 14 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 15 | When the night time comes up comes along you look up in the sky and say where 's the moon gone . |
| 16 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 17 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As the rocks flashed into furnace heat he looked up at the dragon that now occupied more than half the cell . |
| 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 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 22 | Jimmy looked up at the ceiling when he heard it . |
| 23 | William looked up at the clock and saw that it was nearing four o'clock . |
| 24 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 25 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 26 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 27 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 28 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |
| 29 | She looked past the strolling holidaymakers at the gaily-painted shops along the front , then looked up at the hillside and , beyond it , the Wall , towering over all . |
| 30 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |