Example sentences of "up at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As they walked over the little grey bridges that spanned the canals , as she stared up at tall Dutch gables or floodlit towers , Luke told her a little of the history of the city .
2 Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas .
3 While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US .
4 While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US .
5 Their post-punk scaffolding of taut bass and clenched guitar attack meets up at acute and difficult angles with the chafing , jagged white bars of violin and the half-guttersnipe-half-muezzin wail of vocals .
6 Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations .
7 Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock .
8 There are some posh flats going up at neighbouring Royal Quays which will provide building jobs : ‘ It 's Sun City in the middle of Bantustan , ’ a Labour councillor said to me .
9 The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero .
10 I ca n't believe why I 've got ta get up at flipping ten o'clock oh my God .
11 I ca n't believe I 've got ta get up at flipping ten o'clock on Sunday !
12 One point at issue for Yugoslav leaders was the extent to which current developments were damaging the relationship built up at federal level with the European Communities ( EC ) .
13 It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ?
14 Asthma tends to flare up at various times it 'll it tends
15 Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times .
16 JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news .
17 and it it crops up at various different stages through the play as well , it 's not just erm , you know
18 I mean if you like , I mean , I 'll pick you up at normal time , then we 'll just
19 Rincewind looked up at grinning men .
20 The pound is up at one-dollar fifty-one .
21 But it is also worth while to check up at other times , because there is still a great deal about Epsilon Aurigæ which we do not know , and it may not shine quite steadily at any time .
22 So tha that is , mam picks phone up at other end .
23 Picked him up at Imperial College .
24 The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 .
25 Profits were 50% up at passive components distributor Nortronic but Wakefield , the US networking equipment company that has moved into network systems integration , turned in a slightly lower contribution than last year because return of growth in the UK market has not enhanced the computer communications sector yet .
26 they 've erm , erm fifty-eight 's up at Black Bridge , they used to be three of them there and , one of them was used in the
27 The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management .
28 My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent .
29 Unfortunately many clinicians use this approach in an incorrect manner and do not follow up at regular intervals .
30 While all this was going on in our flat , something was clearly up at International Backside .
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