Example sentences of "look up at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 13 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 14 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mirabilis continued to stab the picture , muttering low-voiced curses , looking up at the walls where the pigeon was still standing . |
| 19 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 22 | Look up at the rooftops and you will see things you have never noticed before . |
| 23 | I look up at the windows . |
| 24 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 25 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 26 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 27 | Now look up at the towers guarding the entrance to Charles Bridge . |
| 28 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 29 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 30 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |