Example sentences of "look up [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward neither looked up nor moved . |
| 2 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 3 | At the door she had suddenly looked up and said , ‘ Do n't you eat ? ’ |
| 4 | As the tiny head , covered in silky black hair , nestled warmly in the palm of her hand , she had looked up and met eyes full of tenderness and love , eyes the colour of slate . |
| 5 | He stopped abruptly , and she knew he must have looked up and seen her . |
| 6 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 7 | Megan looks up but does not move . |
| 8 | One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’ |
| 9 | The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet 's contrails , whooshing along in impressive white streams . |
| 10 | from a face which looks up and smiles ; |
| 11 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 12 | Tepilit looks up and sees Leavitt . |
| 13 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 14 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 15 | And as the water goes she sees a nail in the water and she looks up and she see Jesus going like that . |
| 16 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , when you looked into his eyes were you looking up or down ? ’ |
| 18 | The little boy pattered along beside me , looking up and smiling . |
| 19 | Bob Crayshaw said , looking up and down the table while he shifted his cutlery around as if he might find answers in the new arrangement . |
| 20 | As well as looking up and looking in , the leader needs to look out . |
| 21 | Like most of the nomes who had been born in the Store he hated looking up and not seeing a ceiling . |
| 22 | 1 ) One of those L-shaped perspex photo frames is ideal for holding picture grids upright on the back of the knitting table to save looking up and down while working — just slide the picture into the frame . |
| 23 | He stood for a moment , looking up and down the dark street before quietly entering the passage . |
| 24 | Looking up and looking down . |
| 25 | Looking up and downstream I can see lots of discharge points which would rapidly raise the level of the river in wet weather . |
| 26 | GUIL : ( Looking up and around ) Then the times are bad indeed . |
| 27 | In the corner of her eye she saw Maurin stir , looking up and gauging whether Durance 's rage was abated . |
| 28 | He walked through a narrow alley into the main street and stood on the corner by a butcher 's , looking up and down . |
| 29 | They were photographic enlargements , head-and-shoulders portraits , all of the same girl , photographed in profile ; looking up and looking down , and seen from the right and from the left . |
| 30 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |