Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This card may be placed next to the model or face up at the table edge to indicate that it is in play . |
2 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
3 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
4 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
5 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
8 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
9 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
10 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
11 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
12 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
13 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
14 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
15 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
16 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
17 | This lunchtime we 're missing a Co-op beer-tasting and nosh up at the excellent Dragon House Chinese restaurant in Newcastle these politicians have much for which to answer . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
20 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
21 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
22 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
23 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
24 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
25 | At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time . |
26 | Session 1992 — 3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting . |
27 | Session 1992–3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting . |
28 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |