Example sentences of "up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | And racing along with the flood , tossed from peak to peak , plunged into troughs , was Mr Bishop , arms flung wide , eyes open , staring up at the sky . |
| 62 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 63 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 64 | As she got in , Maggie glanced up at the sky . |
| 65 | Outside again she glanced up at the sky which was a pale shade of blue . |
| 66 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 67 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 68 | Grimly , Delaney looked up at the sky . |
| 69 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 70 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 71 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 72 | Jonna looked up at the sky , now rapidly darkening . |
| 73 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 74 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 75 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 76 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 77 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 78 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 79 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 80 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 81 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 82 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 83 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |
| 84 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 85 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 86 | Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud . |
| 87 | Christina looked up at the sky which was an ominous navy blue . |
| 88 | A momentary disorientation took him when he found that not only could he not move , but that he was staring straight up at the sky , and there appeared to be no ground underneath him . |
| 89 | ‘ It 's raining again , ’ Jed said , looking up at the sky . |
| 90 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |