Example sentences of "up at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 32 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 33 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 34 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 35 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 36 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 37 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 38 | Hooked up at the back was a double-decker dog carrier , each deck having four holes to a side , giving a total of sixteen holes . |
| 39 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 40 | ‘ You ca n't take your friend 's dog out but you can get up at the crack of dawn to set your hair . ’ |
| 41 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 42 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 43 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 44 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 45 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 46 | In spite of such an unexpected result , it is important to see that the general pattern is very regular and to remember that , as far as the volunteer is concerned , he gets up at the ‘ normal ’ time each ‘ morning ’ to be ready for a full day ahead of him . |
| 47 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 48 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 49 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 50 | To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building . |
| 51 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 52 | For example , when troubles blew up at the Heath Town Estate in the Midlands they were immediately compared with Broadwater Farm and the place labelled a ghetto in the way the media treated the incident . |
| 53 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 54 | Once it was dry , Louise styled Kukkay 's hair by twisting it up at the back to create fullness on top while still leaving it curly and ‘ free ’ . |
| 55 | He took command three from home and won by ten lengths , but Davies , with a typical wisecrack at trainer Gardie Grissell , exclaimed : ‘ I thought you could train — he blew up at the water . ’ |
| 56 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 57 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 58 | FIRST seen at the King 's Head six years ago , Sheridan Morley 's elegant and civilised entertainment Noel and Gertie now turns up at the Comedy in much revised form . |
| 59 | Wanted on drug charges , he may end up at the centre of an extraordinary trial in Miami . |
| 60 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |