Example sentences of "[verb] up at a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 3 | A number of draft agreements drawn up at a meeting of the ACC Ministerial Council , held in Baghdad on Jan. 16-17 , were ratified including accords covering co-operation in industry , oil and gas , health , air transport and tourism . |
| 4 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 5 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She got up and walked around nervously , fetching up at a cabinet with a heavy silver box on top . |
| 8 | Set up at a cost of half a million pounds contributed by CLD and the consortium , this is seen as a long-term project to introduce CLD staff , clients and other interested parties to open systems . |
| 9 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 10 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 11 | Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk . |
| 12 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 13 | The adventurers end up at a confluence of shafts , one of which leads to the Bloodheart itself . |
| 14 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 15 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 16 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 17 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 18 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 19 | We ended up at a bar near the theatre . |