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Example sentences of "and [verb] up at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy .
2	She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky .
3	She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more .
4	She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky .
5	Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky .
6	We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] .
7	This lunchtime we 're missing a Co-op beer-tasting and nosh up at the excellent Dragon House Chinese restaurant in Newcastle these politicians have much for which to answer .
8	He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building .
9	At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time .
10	I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies .
11	But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days .
12	Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough .
13	She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair .
14	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 .
15	Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera .
16	Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows .
17	She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow .
18	He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day .
19	He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men .
20	She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky .
21	However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate .
22	He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall .
23	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 .
24	The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky .
25	The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her .
26	Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch .
27	He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high .
28	Still feeling perturbed , he went back into his house , lay on his pallet bed and stared up at the flaking ceiling .
29	Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams .
30	The deep , concerned voice broke through the dark haze of unconsciousness , and she blinked and stared up at the shadowy image of Guy Sterne 's face , bending over her .