Example sentences of "[pron] looked up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit .
2 I looked up through the hole , and saw Will and John Heminges and Richard Burbage .
3 I looked up at the building .
4 I looked up at the nurse , surprised by my name on a stranger 's lips .
5 I looked up at the sun .
6 I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass .
7 I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground .
8 I looked up at the clock .
9 As I thought these things , I looked up at the window .
10 I looked up at the mountain .
11 I looked up at the jumble of rooftops with their abundance of chimney-pots , the florid iron bal-conies at the dormer windows .
12 We paralleled Crow Road for a bit , and stopped , waiting for signals , outside Jordanhill station ; I looked up at the rear of the flats which fronted Crow Road , trying to work out which was Janice Rae 's .
13 I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me .
14 And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion .
15 When I looked up into the mirror again , he was moving , crawling towards something behind him .
16 Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit .
17 As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion …
18 And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement .
19 I put it inside cos I looked in I looked up in the atlas and there is a town called .
20 I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book .
21 If you looked up to the right there was just a green shoulder and endless sky , day after day blue .
22 Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion .
23 As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her .
24 She looked up at the outline of him , the wild hair and the shadowed eyes .
25 She looked up at the girl beside her .
26 She looked up at the ceiling and shivered .
27 She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass .
28 But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone .
29 Instinctively she looked up at the sky .
30 Pushing her way through the hordes of little black boys with bones through their noses , she looked up at the sky .
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