Example sentences of "look up at the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Look up at the rooftops and you will see things you have never noticed before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 9 | William looked up at the clock and saw that it was nearing four o'clock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 12 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 13 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 14 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |
| 17 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 18 | Chen looked up at the camera and made the hand sign Liu Chang had taught him . |
| 19 | Graham looked up at the skies and sighed . |
| 20 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |