Example sentences of "looking up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 2 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 3 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 4 | She was lying on her bed , looking up at the ceiling , Smudge and Whisky curled on her stomach . |
| 5 | For a moment her father said nothing more either he just stood with his hands clasped behind him , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 6 | They lie there a minute , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | She stood for a moment beside Melissa , looking up at the portrait . |
| 9 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 10 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 15 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 16 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 17 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 21 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 22 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 23 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 24 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 25 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 29 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 30 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |