Example sentences of "and [vb past] up at the [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 9 | He turned , and glanced up at the clock above the bar . |
| 10 | Feeling a little embarrassed , he quickly cleared his throat and glanced up at the clock . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
| 13 | The conveyance came around the corner , quite recklessly , and pulled up at the sight of him . |
| 14 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |
| 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 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 20 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 21 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 22 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 23 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 24 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
| 25 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 26 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 27 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 28 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
| 29 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
| 30 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |