Example sentences of "she looked up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 2 | She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up into the thin face of Edward Morris . |
| 3 | Relief and anger swept through her as she looked up into the familiar dark , scowling face . |
| 4 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 5 | She looked up into the haughty face but he said nothing at all . |
| 6 | She looked up into the gilt-edged mirror above the basin and cursed silently . |
| 7 | She looked up into the smashed glass of the windscreen , something was trapped under the wiper blade . |
| 8 | She looked up at the curved glass roof overhead , so high and with pigeons on the inside , fluttering amongst the iron girders , trapped inside . |
| 9 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
| 10 | She looked up at the clear sky . |
| 11 | She looked up at the six solid feet of him , at the huge , deep chest under his black shirt , at his bulging arm muscles . |
| 12 | Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks . |
| 13 | She looked up at the bedroom ceiling , where a pale stain recalled a burst pipe nearly fifteen months ago . |
| 14 | Bessie was busy rolling out pastry for the meat pies and she looked up at the young nurse . |
| 15 | The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest . |
| 16 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 17 | She looked up at the clock , wondering if there was time for a pot of tea before lunch , but deciding that the second gong would sound soon , and she could wait . |
| 18 | She looked up at the rook 's nest and the grey sky beyond , then bent to pick a clump of white winter aconites to take home to Josh . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 21 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 22 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 23 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 24 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |
| 25 | She looked up at the flawless blue sky , dotted with a few drifting white clouds . |
| 26 | She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass . |
| 27 | Instinctively she looked up at the sky . |
| 28 | Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair . |
| 29 | Pushing her way through the hordes of little black boys with bones through their noses , she looked up at the sky . |
| 30 | She looked up at the sky , where vultures were gathering . |