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Example sentences of "look up [coord] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Edward neither looked up nor moved .
2	At the door she had suddenly looked up and said , ‘ Do n't you eat ? ’
3	He stopped abruptly , and she knew he must have looked up and seen her .
4	As the tiny head , covered in silky black hair , nestled warmly in the palm of her hand , she had looked up and met eyes full of tenderness and love , eyes the colour of slate .
5	Megan looks up but does not move .
6	One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’
7	Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear .
8	If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation .
9	The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet 's contrails , whooshing along in impressive white streams .
10	Tepilit looks up and sees Leavitt .
11	Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again .
12	As well as looking up and looking in , the leader needs to look out .
13	Looking up and looking down .
14	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 .
15	In the corner of her eye she saw Maurin stir , looking up and gauging whether Durance 's rage was abated .
16	In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband .
17	I half hoped she would look up and wave , though of course the idea was ridiculous .
18	Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that .
19	The women would look up and congratulate me and encourage me to ‘ go on , go on , you can , you can ’ .
20	But he sat and did n't look up and said , ‘ Hang on for a coach , ’
21	He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight .
22	I thought I would look up and see King Tut staring down with a hacksaw blade in his hand . ’
23	He was over Charing Cross Road and well into the Square before some instinct of recognition made him look up and see the place which was still the jewel of London , the haven of fantasies , the last known post of security , the Crystal Rooms .
24	It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me !
25	So I could look up and see the sky .
26	He leant across the back seat so that he could look up and see her face .
27	The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering .
28	Then he would look up and see her .
29	She leaned out of the window , half-terrified , half-hopeful that he would look up and see her .
30	They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground .