Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 2 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 3 | Harriet squinted up at the dark sky with businesslike appraisal . |
| 4 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 5 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 6 | Next , look up at the blue sky — and notice a small , dark cloud drifting past . |
| 7 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 8 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 9 | George glanced up at the clear sky . |
| 10 | Gazing out at the grey sky turning slowly blue , or glancing aimlessly through the newspaper 's parade of politics , fashion , commerce and sport , Charlotte felt a numb remoteness from the wider world . |
| 11 | Sir Richard stood still , staring up at the blue sky , turning his face to feel the sun . |
| 12 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |
| 13 | He looked doubtfully at the rain-filled skies . |
| 14 | He then stared up at the blue sky . |
| 15 | I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever . |
| 16 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 17 | Outside Benjamin stared up at the darkening sky . |
| 18 | He stared up at the starlit sky and shivered , not only from the biting cold but his own sombre fear of what might await him . |
| 19 | The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her . |
| 20 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
| 21 | Ho looked up at the dawn-streaked sky . |
| 22 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 23 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 24 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 25 | She looked up at the cloudless sky . |
| 26 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 27 | Selkirk looked up at the darkening sky . |
| 28 | She looked up at the clear sky . |
| 29 | He looked up at the clearing sky , darkening now into dusk . |
| 30 | He stared out at the dappled sky , trying to remember . |