Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 2 | She shielded her eyes and stared up at him , and felt that peculiar shiver of awareness again . |
| 3 | I opened my eyes and looked up at Mick 's grinning face , leaning into the entrance to the trench . |
| 4 | Adam opened his eyes and looked up at Curly Top . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes and looked up at him . |
| 6 | A little ashamed of losing her self-control so completely , she dashed a hand across her eyes and glared up at him . |
| 7 | Mr Simons slumped down in his worn seat and looked up at me expectantly . |
| 8 | Jenna stood in the doorway and glared up at him and he simply took her arm and drew her into the room , closing the door firmly . |
| 9 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 10 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 11 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 12 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 13 | Robyn crushed her fingers into balls at her side and stared up at him , anguish visible in the emerald of her eyes . |
| 14 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 17 | Jenna could not understand his attitude and looked up at him with wide , puzzled eyes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 20 | From among the papers he extracted a chequebook and , drawing his chair close to the tea-chest , he rested the chequebook on it , took out his fountain pen and looked up at Denis . |
| 21 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 22 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 23 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 24 | A woman appeared in the lower passageway and smiled up at him , her painted face shrewd . |
| 25 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 26 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They stood in a small circle and looked up at him , Dr. Howarth , Clifford Bradley , Miss Foley , Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 29 | She sighed and lazily opened one very blue eye and squinted up at her partner … so much for fantasies . |
| 30 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |