Example sentences of "[noun pl] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 2 | The stuff dumped in Africa is of particularly poor quality : the EC offers extra subsidies for exports of the sort of fatty beef European shoppers increasingly turn their noses up at . |
| 3 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |
| 4 | There were no lifts lifting the cars up at that time . |
| 5 | When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie . |
| 6 | She flashed her eyes up at him , hatred in their depths . |
| 7 | In the non-Midlands games there was a breathtaking finish at Vicarage Road where Bruce Rioch 's team were three goals up at one stage . |
| 8 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 9 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 10 | Ten feet up at the threshold the throttles are closed and a token flare made almost incredibly close to the tarmac — the sensation of speed quite exhilarating at 120 knots and two feet — when the soft , forgiving kneeling-knuckle undercarriage absorbs any small residual descent-rate to give a smooth gentle touchdown . |
| 11 | From down on deck , the cliffs rise up to the sky , quite blotting out the sun ; from 400 feet up at the viewing platform on Contractors Hill the passing tramps , container vessels and car carriers look like toys . |
| 12 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 13 | Tamsin glowers up at me . |
| 14 | After breakfast , Damian picked the keys up at the desk , and they walked out into the cool sunlit morning to find the streets busy and bright . |
| 15 | Bring the crates up at once , will you ? ’ |
| 16 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 17 | Boroughmuir go to Bridgehaugh without Murry Walker and Derek Stark — on duty with the Scotland seven in Hong Kong — but new British Lion , Peter Wright , lines up at tighthead in a pack which will give Stirling a testing time . |
| 18 | The jet lines up at the tanker 's serving carriage and drives the hose back in to open a valve . |
| 19 | That 's alright Charlotte can you pull your trousers up at the back , they 're a little bit falling down good girl . |
| 20 | Sorry I could n't get some basic staples up at the house for your arrival . |
| 21 | balloons up at the door anyway . |
| 22 | At one stage , the pound was trading nearly three pfennigs higher against the Deutschmark before settling back to close 2.14 pfennigs up at Dm2.3779 . |
| 23 | Then , after a while without having stolen anything , they 'll leave , pausing only to stick two fingers up at the store detective on the way out , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Well you look at , if you put your hand up and move , move your fingers up at the side , you can see that , you can see that moving ca n't you ? |
| 25 | We had some little boys at the end there , throwing sticks up at a chestnut tree , or you know , |
| 26 | Fuels up at the boat garage , putting it on plastic . |
| 27 | I 've got some cyclists up at Haystock but years ago I mean when they coming up there , it 's a long road from Doncaster Market an an an deep old ditches |
| 28 | Of Jesus Christ , someone says : ‘ We got ta find out where he holes up at night . ’ |
| 29 | Earnings up at Compass |
| 30 | He lined three glasses up at Cattini 's elbow , keeping one back for himself . |