Example sentences of "look up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 2 | Their two children are beside their parents , and all four appear to be looking up into Heaven . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , ’ she said , looking up into Fen 's face . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall we go to that place again ? ’ he said looking up towards Jubilee Wood . |
| 5 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 6 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 7 | ‘ To a terrific Sloane called Sukey , ’ said Perdita , not looking up from Horse and Hound . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want to go to it ? ’ asked Betty , looking up in surprise . |
| 9 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 10 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen to this : No one shall look up to Heaven . |
| 12 | And like I thought I 'm not gon na look up in case he goes for me or something , so I just kept my head in the pillow and pretended the light was blinding me oh ha ha cos when I get you alone what ? |
| 13 | As I chew and chew without swallowing , the Monster 's slobbering and sucky-grunting falls silent making me look up in alarm . |
| 14 | There was some nuance of intimacy in her tone that made Richard look up in surprise and then look at Frank . |
| 15 | If her father found himself sitting on his own , he would look up in terror and cry for humans . |
| 16 | An accountancy firm bailing out a floundering client from its own pocket and expecting nothing in return , on the other hand , might cause Austin Mitchell to look up in wonder . |
| 17 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 18 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 19 | Perplexed , she looked up into Dane 's face . |
| 20 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 21 | He looked up into Grandson Richard 's huge face and , trying to make his voice as deep and slow as possible , said the only word any nome had said directly to a human in five thousand years . |
| 22 | And I looked up at tap and this water were pouring out of tap , I thought oh ! |
| 23 | He stood in the garden , at the edge of the pool , and looked up at Dad 's window . |
| 24 | I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed . |
| 25 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 26 | The dog , a beautiful Airedale , looked up at Breeze and wagged his tail . |
| 27 | She leaned forward on her elbows and looked up at Briant with an expression of almost ludicrous earnestness on her face . |
| 28 | Marianne looked up at Dane from beneath her ludicrously long eyelashes . |
| 29 | Rain and Oliver crossed the rue de Rivoli and looked up at Cobalt 's flat . |
| 30 | As he crossed Grace 's deck Woodie looked up with astonishment at Dreadnought , which was a bigger boat , and , having much less furniture on board , rode higher in the water . |