Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
2 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
3 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
4 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
7 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
8 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
12 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
16 | He turned , and glanced up at the clock above the bar . |
17 | Feeling a little embarrassed , he quickly cleared his throat and glanced up at the clock . |
18 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
19 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
20 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
21 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
22 | ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club . |
23 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
24 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
25 | Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road . |
26 | The conveyance came around the corner , quite recklessly , and pulled up at the sight of him . |
27 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
28 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
29 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
30 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |