Example sentences of "[noun sg] and looked up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 2 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 3 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 4 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 5 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 6 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 7 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 8 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 9 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
| 10 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 11 | On the first morning I stepped onto the chalet balcony and looked up at the mountain . |
| 12 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |