Example sentences of "up [conj] look [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that .
2 It is more difficult for man to look up than to look down .
3 She sat up and looked around .
4 I sat up and looked around .
5 He sat up and looked around ; he was in open grassland , the horses were hobbled .
6 ‘ I do n't know how long I was in there before I sat up and looked around .
7 When Tamar began to tell her father and George about the children , however , her mother-in-law brightened up and looked quite animated .
8 Anne jumped up and looked angrily at Gilbert .
9 He got up and looked very hard at me .
10 Slowly Jack stood up and looked down at Ho .
11 She stood up and looked down at him .
12 Jenna sat up and looked down at him eagerly .
13 Describing the arrest , she said : ‘ We got up and looked out of the window , and saw police were gathering by the minute — loads of them with rifles and guns — and we got quite frightened .
14 Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard .
15 Between whiles she got up and looked out of the window , watching the pale sunshine come and go on the elaborate mouldings and cornices of the offices on the opposite side of Hand and Ball Court , until she realized she was being watched from a window of the floor above by two young men in shirtsleeves .
16 His master got up and looked out of the window .
17 Breakfast was difficult , bringing with it the aroma of kippers and the sight of poached eggs quivering on plates , but by the time our lunch flask was delivered , people were perking up and looking forward to the task ahead .
18 ‘ Oh gosh , ’ Matilda said , sitting up and looking around .
19 The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy , I was happy to see .
20 Looking up and looking down .
21 They were photographic enlargements , head-and-shoulders portraits , all of the same girl , photographed in profile ; looking up and looking down , and seen from the right and from the left .
22 As well as looking up and looking in , the leader needs to look out .
23 Some people freeze up and look completely false .
24 He began to tidy it up and look around for the plastic bag .
25 I lift my head up and look down to the floor at the foot of the bed , where Andy is lying curled up in his sleeping bag , unseen in the shadows , which is why I was being quiet .
26 People dress up and look very smart
27 I curl up and look out of the window .
28 ‘ You can come up and look around , ’ Digby has said in a personal message to the Ayatollah , ‘ he 's not here .
29 ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob .
30 Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover .
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