Example sentences of "and looked up at the " in BNC.
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1 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
2 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
3 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
4 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
5 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
6 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
7 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
8 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
9 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
10 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
11 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
12 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
13 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
14 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
15 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
16 | When they had gone , Peskova turned and looked up at the house again . |
17 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
18 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
19 | On the first morning I stepped onto the chalet balcony and looked up at the mountain . |
20 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
21 | The servants woke , and two gentlemen , who were passing in the road below , stopped and looked up at the house . |
22 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
23 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
24 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
25 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
26 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
27 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
28 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
29 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
30 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |