Example sentences of "as [pron] look up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 3 | Relief and anger swept through her as she looked up into the familiar dark , scowling face . |
| 4 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Man wounded , ’ said Charlie in a loud whisper as he looked up towards the trenches . |
| 9 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |