Example sentences of "look up at the sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 2 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 6 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 7 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's raining again , ’ Jed said , looking up at the sky . |
| 10 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 11 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
| 14 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 15 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 16 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 17 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 18 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 19 | Grimly , Delaney looked up at the sky . |
| 20 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 21 | Jonna looked up at the sky , now rapidly darkening . |
| 22 | He looked up at the sky . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 25 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 26 | Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud . |
| 27 | Christina looked up at the sky which was an ominous navy blue . |
| 28 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 29 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
| 30 | Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport . |