Example sentences of "and look up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 2 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 3 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 7 | Walk through and look up at the Parler net vaulting with the crown of Bohemia on the boss . |
| 8 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 9 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 10 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 11 | Stand here and look up at the River Esk a famous salmon fishing river ; and across the river at St. Mary 's church , at the top of 199 steps , furnished by local shipwrights . |
| 12 | Then he added , ‘ I did n't think they would , ’ and looked up into the muzzle of his own pistol held steady in the President 's hand . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ! ’ she gasped , as she righted herself and looked up into the victim 's face . |
| 14 | She collapsed on the floor , among all the rubbish , laughed herself out to silence , and looked up into the attic , to see the torchlight shining there . |
| 15 | He was well on his way to the station when he paused and looked up towards a building , and he saw in his mind 's eye Carrie running up the steps , and he recalled her voice saying , ‘ Oh ! why must you keep on about that . ’ |
| 16 | He stepped away from the letter box and looked up towards the window . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 22 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 23 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 24 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 25 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 26 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 27 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
| 28 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 29 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 30 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |