Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked up at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 2 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 3 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 4 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 5 | The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest . |
| 6 | Bessie was busy rolling out pastry for the meat pies and she looked up at the young nurse . |
| 7 | She looked up at the curved glass roof overhead , so high and with pigeons on the inside , fluttering amongst the iron girders , trapped inside . |
| 8 | She looked up at the flawless blue sky , dotted with a few drifting white clouds . |
| 9 | She looked up at the clear sky . |
| 10 | She looked up at the cloudless sky . |
| 11 | She looked up at the blank expression on Inspector Black 's face , then continued reading , ‘ It 's another match , the profile is almost identical . |
| 12 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
| 13 | He looked up at the half-moon . |
| 14 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
| 15 | Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel . |
| 16 | He looked up at the lined , seamed face of the rat-catcher , framed by his black , tarry leather hood . |
| 17 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 18 | He looked up at the great tower soaring above him . |
| 19 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 20 | He looked up at the pale white sky above the half-ruined trees . |
| 21 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 22 | He looked up at the clearing sky , darkening now into dusk . |
| 23 | He looked up at the white tower . |
| 24 | He looked up at the formidable stone keep of Gloucester Castle towering three storeys above him and wondered if there was danger within , although his task was straightforward enough . |