Example sentences of "[verb] up at [art] sky " in BNC.
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1 | Hrun peered up at the sky . |
2 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
3 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
4 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
5 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
8 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
9 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ It 's raining again , ’ Jed said , looking up at the sky . |
12 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
13 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |
14 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
15 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
16 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
17 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
18 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
19 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
20 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
21 | He sat down on the rug in front of the Anywhithers and leaned back on straight arms , gazing up at the sky . |
22 | I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’ |
23 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
24 | As she got in , Maggie glanced up at the sky . |
25 | Outside again she glanced up at the sky which was a pale shade of blue . |
26 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
27 | He glanced up at the sky . |
28 | Jessica glanced up at the sky . |
29 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
30 | And racing along with the flood , tossed from peak to peak , plunged into troughs , was Mr Bishop , arms flung wide , eyes open , staring up at the sky . |