Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 2 | The great beeches towered up towards the sky , their grey smooth trunks like the columns of an abbey church , and about their roots short grasses grew , gay with harebells and scentless violets among which indolently flitted small butterflies more blue than the flowers . |
| 3 | Hrun peered up at the sky . |
| 4 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 5 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 6 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 7 | Straining her eyes , Chesarynth squinted up into the sky outside the neat polished world of the dome . |
| 8 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 9 | Rohmer was looking up into the sky as the vortex of smoke and steam was greedily sucked skywards into the black roiling clouds of the storm . |
| 10 | Father Kinsella stood in the open doorway , looking up at the sky . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 14 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 15 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's raining again , ’ Jed said , looking up at the sky . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although Molins ' aim is to capture the ‘ small — and often unacknowledged — details of life ’ , her eye ranges from broad vistas noting the peculiar effect of a lamp-post Lurching up into the sky or of a statue gesticulating from the top of a building , to close-up studies of various corners of interiors . |
| 21 | As dawn came up in the sky we made preparations to move back to our own lines , covering our withdrawal and keeping careful watch for any signs of the enemy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
| 24 | Julian ( 4.5 ) and David ( 4.2 ) stood them up and played a game with them as rockets going up to the sky . |
| 25 | Amid a buzz of excitement I heard that it was ‘ one of old Maurice 's hits ’ , and I pushed my way through the crowd just in time to see another ball sail up into the sky towards the Castle . |
| 26 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 27 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 28 | An orange ball of flame ripped up into the sky , bathing the deck in light like a miniature sun . |
| 29 | We look up into the sky , we watch the shapes of the clouds changing till we recognize a picture . |
| 30 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |