Example sentences of "[v-ing] up at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 3 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 4 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 5 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 7 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 8 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 9 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 10 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 11 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 12 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 13 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 14 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 15 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 16 | Mirabilis continued to stab the picture , muttering low-voiced curses , looking up at the walls where the pigeon was still standing . |
| 17 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 18 | We float in silence , listening to the melodic , descending whistle of the ubiquitous canyon wren , gazing up at the ravens and turkey vultures , scanning the cliffs for deer and sheep . |
| 19 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 20 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 21 | He wished he was free of Cranston and this matter ; free of Cheapside , back at the top of his tower , staring up at the stars . |
| 22 | Fergus took no notice ; he kept on crying , still staring up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 23 | I love you ! she yelled silently , staring up at the skies . |
| 24 | She stood for several seconds , fingering her camera , staring up at the trees , glancing down the path and listening for the sound of trampling in the undergrowth that would herald Fernand 's return to his task . |
| 25 | Behind her , a stone fell into the river and she turned , glancing up at the fires on the cliff and the dark clouds above the crags and ramparts of the fortress . |
| 26 | The round , tapering horns are white and can be quite long , growing outwards and forwards , curving up at the tips . |
| 27 | So I 'm not queuing up at the bakers . |
| 28 | The dandelion quiche was curling up at the edges and the semolina pudding congealed into a wodge you could use as Polyfilla . |