Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [prep] the sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 2 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 3 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 4 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 5 | Again it rose from its leafy perch and soared up into the sky . |
| 6 | A bullet clanged monstrously loud on a brass barrel and ricocheted up into the sky . |
| 7 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 8 | Morse stood where he was , listening , and staring up at the sky as if viewing the unsuspected behaviour of some distant galaxy . |
| 9 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 10 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 11 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 12 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 13 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 14 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
| 15 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 16 | The coroner wiped his nose on the back of his hand and stared up at the sky . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure with all that air inside it from the balls , ’ explained Endill , ‘ It will eat a ball too many and float up into the sky for all to see . ’ |