Example sentences of "up at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 2 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 3 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 5 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 6 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 7 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 9 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 10 | Turning around to peer up at him in the gathering darkness , Laura had no clue what he was thinking as she viewed his bland expression , which echoed the studied unconcern in his voice . |
| 11 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 12 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 13 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 14 | " Coming out to play ? " he said , smiling up at her in the sunlight . |
| 15 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 16 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 17 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 18 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 19 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 20 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |