Example sentences of "and [vb past] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 2 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 3 | Willie stopped and gazed up at them . |
| 4 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 5 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 6 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 7 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 8 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 9 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 10 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 11 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 12 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 13 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 14 | PS Taped the English Soccer on ‘ Sports CHannel Ohio ’ last night and got up at 6:15 to watch the highlights before going to work . |
| 15 | And got up at four . |
| 16 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 17 | Flora rolled over and peered up at her mother . |
| 18 | He pushed the plate back and squinted up at her . |
| 19 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 20 | Emily rolled over and squinted up at him . |
| 21 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 22 | She sighed and lazily opened one very blue eye and squinted up at her partner … so much for fantasies . |
| 23 | He worked his passage home as a steward and fetched up at Tilbury with £30 wages , which was soon augmented by £46 10s left to him in his absence by his grandfather . |
| 24 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 25 | It had a curious history , for it miraculously survived the destruction of the Tuileries and turned up at Chislehurst in 1871 by unknown means . |
| 26 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 27 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 28 | She took a train to London from Manchester and turned up at ITN . |
| 29 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 30 | She walked out barefoot and turned up at her grandparents ' home in Speke with a sleeping bag wrapped around her . |