Example sentences of "he look up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 32 | The other two were — ’ he looked up at the roof as he struggled for the word ‘ — how you say , scared of him ? |
| 33 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 34 | Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel . |
| 35 | Outside , he looked up at the ship 's funnel . |
| 36 | He looked up at the circle of menacing faces surrounding him . |
| 37 | Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud . |
| 38 | He looked up at the mirror once more and saw the car behind him , keeping the same distance , the rain spurting fanwise from its front wheels . |
| 39 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 40 | He enjoyed his meal , and then he looked up at the waiter , smiled and said , ‘ I have n't got any money , you know . |
| 41 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 42 | Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport . |
| 43 | He looked up at the clearing sky , darkening now into dusk . |
| 44 | He looked up at the face with the dark hair above him . |
| 45 | He looked up at the windows of the house . |
| 46 | He looked up at the sky , above the blocks and squat towers of the medium-rise office blocks , and smiled at its blue , city-grimed segmentings . |
| 47 | 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 ) . |
| 48 | Then he looked up at the portrait of Sir Humphrey Agnew and smiled . |
| 49 | He looked up at the lined , seamed face of the rat-catcher , framed by his black , tarry leather hood . |
| 50 | He looked up at the great tower soaring above him . |
| 51 | He looked up at the ceiling . |
| 52 | As the rocks flashed into furnace heat he looked up at the dragon that now occupied more than half the cell . |
| 53 | He looked up at the formidable stone keep of Gloucester Castle towering three storeys above him and wondered if there was danger within , although his task was straightforward enough . |
| 54 | He looked up at the ceiling . |
| 55 | He looked up at the pale white sky above the half-ruined trees . |
| 56 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 57 | When he reached the branch-off track to the farm he looked up at the farmhouse . |
| 58 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
| 59 | He looked up at the archway . |
| 60 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |