Example sentences of "[v-ing] up at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 34 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 35 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 36 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 37 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 40 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 41 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 42 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 43 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 44 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 48 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 49 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ It 's raining again , ’ Jed said , looking up at the sky . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Lewis stood on the front lawn , looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 56 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 57 | ( An image from another life : lying below Broken Boy , looking up at the summer sky through the broken reaches of the creature 's antlers . |
| 58 | She shot off looking up at the plane , underneath the tail and far wing and back again . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Looking up at the roof , the roof of the whole of this hall range and indeed of the other part is is done in the same way . |