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

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1 Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking .
2 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me .
3 To see Dustin Hoffman playing his own song on the piano , and looking up adoringly as Sting sang — well , you do n't get many moments like that .
4 However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept .
5 Dominic , whose face was still coated with food , looked up trucently as he passed and Wexford said , because he could n't resist it :
6 He looked up just as Mary turned , and let out an exclamation .
7 He looked up desperately as he saw the other assassin now approach , his dagger raised , waiting to strike .
8 She looked up again when Jimmy put a hand on her shoulder .
9 She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated :
10 Jotan looked up quickly when Nogai spoke , but he said nothing .
11 Biting her lip with worry , and trying not to give way to her feelings of fear and trepidation , she looked up quickly as the door opened .
12 Lalage looked up only when Dada , having completed a diagram of salt and pepper pots , directed her attention to the flat silver dish she was delaying in its stately passage round the table .
13 He looked up eagerly as Bernice walked over to him .
14 They both looked up together as the door opened and Madeleine came hesitantly forward .
15 She was so preoccupied that she merely nodded , but she looked up sharply when he added , ‘ Dawn has offered to help with any difficult operations where you might need assistance . ’
16 Hatch looked up sharply as he placed the box of shrubs on the side .
17 Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door .
18 He looked up angrily before he went on talking to old Taylor , the gardener .
19 Short looked up angrily as he remembered the events of that day .
20 She looked up suddenly where a shower of blossom swirled from the cherry-boughs .
21 He looked up now as she entered — Freddie had already given her a spare key — and said , pleasantly enough , ‘ Hello , Liza .
22 He looked up happily as Hari put down her basket and took off her shawl .
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