Example sentences of "look up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 2 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 3 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 4 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 5 | Philip thought he must have seen him but he had n't , because he stopped and whistled again , looking up towards the cliffs . |
| 6 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 7 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 8 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 9 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 11 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 12 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 13 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 14 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 15 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 16 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 17 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 18 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 19 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 20 | Mirabilis continued to stab the picture , muttering low-voiced curses , looking up at the walls where the pigeon was still standing . |
| 21 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
| 22 | ‘ Staff Nurse , ’ she said without looking up from the notes she was writing . |
| 23 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 24 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ The scientists said , ‘ Oh , beware of the chiggers ’ , and the first day we went out , in our shorts and flip-flops , looking up in the trees for these chiggers — we thought they might be big furry things . |
| 26 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 27 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 28 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 29 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 30 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |