Example sentences of "look up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 2 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 3 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 4 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 5 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 6 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 7 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 8 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 9 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 10 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 11 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 12 | He looks up at the class . |
| 13 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 14 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 15 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 16 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 17 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 18 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 19 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 20 | She shot off looking up at the plane , underneath the tail and far wing and back again . |
| 21 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |
| 22 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 23 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 24 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 25 | ‘ There is another unicorn , ’ he said , looking up at the Trapper . |
| 26 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 27 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 28 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 29 | Then , looking up at the circular window above it , Jack saw that the catch was not fully in position . |
| 30 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |