Example sentences of "look up at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 2 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 3 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 4 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 5 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 6 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 7 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 8 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 9 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 10 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 11 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 12 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 13 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 14 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |