Example sentences of "up at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stared up at the windows and then caught sight of the pulpit . |
| 2 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 3 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 4 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 5 | I like it because it 's old , and grey , and dark , and yet I hate — ’ He did not finish what he was saying , staring angrily up at the windows on the top floor of his house . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 7 | He looked up at the windows of the house . |
| 8 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 9 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 10 | He glanced up at the windows of the three handsome houses . |
| 11 | I look up at the windows . |
| 12 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 13 | He looked at the still slightly smoking hole in the couch , just beside where he 'd sat , then up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 14 | Fergus took no notice ; he kept on crying , still staring up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 15 | He crowed suddenly up at the drawings tacked on the wall , then at other times was perfectly quiet and lovely , just looking at things , motes of light , bits of fluff , a pencil . |
| 16 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 17 | We float in silence , listening to the melodic , descending whistle of the ubiquitous canyon wren , gazing up at the ravens and turkey vultures , scanning the cliffs for deer and sheep . |
| 18 | He took them out , stopped and stared up at the ravens cawing raucously against the blue sky . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 21 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 22 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 25 | Float on my back a bit and stare up at the stars . ’ |
| 26 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 27 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 28 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
| 29 | He wished he was free of Cranston and this matter ; free of Cheapside , back at the top of his tower , staring up at the stars . |
| 30 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |