Example sentences of "[adv] up at [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 2 | as if he could suddenly feel her looking at him , he glanced directly up at her window . |
| 3 | Ajayi looked slowly up at her companion , her old lined face gradually contorting into a smile . |
| 4 | ‘ Er — wha-what time is it ? ’ she mumbled , her mind too sleepy and uncoordinated to cope with the sharp , quivering response that gripped her stomach as she blinked nervously up at her husband . |
| 5 | He stared wildly up at her cage roof but though it was buckled by the fall of the tree branch it was still intact and she could not escape . |
| 6 | She looked at her hands , then up at my face . |
| 7 | I looked at the handset , then up at my father , who was leaning over the rail from the floor above , tucking his pyjama top into his trousers . |