Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] look up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion … |
| 2 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 3 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
| 4 | And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement . |
| 5 | And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion . |
| 6 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 7 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 8 | She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up into the thin face of Edward Morris . |
| 9 | Bessie was busy rolling out pastry for the meat pies and she looked up at the young nurse . |
| 10 | The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 13 | If you looked up to the right there was just a green shoulder and endless sky , day after day blue . |
| 14 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 15 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 16 | As he stared down at his half-empty glass Billy became aware of Freddie watching him closely and he looked up at the schemer suddenly , fixing him with a cold stare . |
| 17 | When I looked up into the mirror again , he was moving , crawling towards something behind him . |
| 18 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 19 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 20 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 21 | Relief and anger swept through her as she looked up into the familiar dark , scowling face . |
| 22 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 23 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 24 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 25 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 26 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Man wounded , ’ said Charlie in a loud whisper as he looked up towards the trenches . |
| 28 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |