Example sentences of "looking up at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 2 | She was lying on her bed , looking up at the ceiling , Smudge and Whisky curled on her stomach . |
| 3 | For a moment her father said nothing more either he just stood with his hands clasped behind him , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 4 | They lie there a minute , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 5 | He put out a hand and smoothed the bear 's shaggy head , giving it embarrassed pats , while looking up at the bear-leader as if to say , Is that all right ? |
| 6 | She stood for a moment beside Melissa , looking up at the portrait . |
| 7 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 8 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 9 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 10 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 13 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 17 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 18 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's raining again , ’ Jed said , looking up at the sky . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Lewis stood on the front lawn , looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 24 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 25 | ( An image from another life : lying below Broken Boy , looking up at the summer sky through the broken reaches of the creature 's antlers . |
| 26 | She shot off looking up at the plane , underneath the tail and far wing and back again . |
| 27 | Looking up at the roof , the roof of the whole of this hall range and indeed of the other part is is done in the same way . |
| 28 | ‘ Gngh ? ’ he said , looking up at the woman with a puzzled frown . |
| 29 | Li Yuan sat there , looking up at the image of his father 's father , wondering why he felt so little . |
| 30 | 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 . |