Example sentences of "[vb past] up at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 2 | The old tea pourer , Donna 's one-time school-teacher , peered up at her through rimless glasses . |
| 3 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 4 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
| 5 | He gazed up at her with eyes much , much older than his face . |
| 6 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 7 | His voice was raggedly urgent , and she gazed up at him through cloudy , unfocused eyes . |
| 8 | She gazed up at him through dazed , unfocused eyes . |
| 9 | Ian liked the names and was content to scratch the animals ' heads as , emitting a warm goaty smell , they gazed up at him with calculating yellow eyes . |
| 10 | She gazed up at him in stunned silence . |
| 11 | Then , abruptly , his mouth left her , and she gazed up at him in confused distress , her body still longing for his caress . |
| 12 | The boys gazed up at him in rapture . |
| 13 | She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure . |
| 14 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 15 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 16 | His steps were slow , moving to the kennels where the lurchers lived , fastening them to their leads , shouting at them as they leapt up at him in excitement . |
| 17 | He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face . |
| 18 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 19 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 20 | When he let her go she stared up at him with anguish in her eyes and heard him swear roughly , viciously . |
| 21 | For a moment she stared up at him through glistening eyes , soothed by his hands and the deep sound of his voice . |
| 22 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 23 | She stared up at him in astonishment . |
| 24 | Jessamy stared up at him in amazement . |
| 25 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 26 | Lissa stared up at him in dazed confusion . |
| 27 | She stared up at him in puzzlement and when she blinked , he suddenly drew her to him as though she were a beloved doll . |
| 28 | Rachel stared up at him in growing exasperation . |
| 29 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 30 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |