Example sentences of "and [vb past] up at the " in BNC.
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31 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
32 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
33 | 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 . |
34 | 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 . |
35 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
36 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
37 | 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 ? |
38 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
39 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
40 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
41 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
42 | When they had gone , Peskova turned and looked up at the house again . |
43 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
44 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
45 | On the first morning I stepped onto the chalet balcony and looked up at the mountain . |
46 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
47 | The servants woke , and two gentlemen , who were passing in the road below , stopped and looked up at the house . |
48 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
49 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
50 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
51 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
52 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
53 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
54 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
55 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
56 | 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 . |
57 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
58 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |
59 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
60 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |