Example sentences of "up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They do n't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something . ’ |
| 32 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 33 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 34 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 35 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 36 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 37 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 38 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |
| 39 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 40 | The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind . |
| 41 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 42 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 43 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 44 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 45 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 46 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
| 47 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 48 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 49 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | I seem to use these up at a surprisingly high rate these days ( particularly the 8 pin type ) , but I suppose that practically every project is based on d.i.l. integrated circuits these days . |
| 52 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 53 | Leland Palmer ignores him , doing what all good rock'n'roll drivers do : pointing out the house where Robin Williams lives , pulling up at a liquor store , and drawing our attention to a woman with an exceptionally large arse riding a bike . |
| 54 | It was beautiful , an antique that we picked up at a flea market in Bath . |
| 55 | IF YOU are catering for yourselves and driving to the resort , stock up at a hypermarket before you get there to avoid paying astronomical prices . |
| 56 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 57 | The barge tied up at a quay . |
| 58 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 59 | Speaking up at a meeting |
| 60 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |