Example sentences of "and look up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 3 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 5 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 6 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 7 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 8 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 9 | Walk through and look up at the Parler net vaulting with the crown of Bohemia on the boss . |
| 10 | Stand here and look up at the River Esk a famous salmon fishing river ; and across the river at St. Mary 's church , at the top of 199 steps , furnished by local shipwrights . |
| 11 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 12 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 13 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 14 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 15 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 16 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 17 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
| 18 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 19 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 20 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
| 21 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 22 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
| 23 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 24 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 25 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
| 26 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 27 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 28 | When they had gone , Peskova turned and looked up at the house again . |
| 29 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 30 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |