Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | it 'll come up again at the planning meeting anyway ? |
| 32 | Dark , olive-tinged skin , with a hint of almost Mediterranean swarthiness … thick , dark hair , straight and standing up slightly at the front , swept back and cut short round the ears … a long , wide , ‘ boxer 's ’ sort of nose . |
| 33 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 34 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
| 35 | But it might have been better to read it , for all during the show , creeping into her mind at every lull ( whenever , standing still , she had to gaze up adoringly at the hero , her Duke ) , an idea … . |
| 36 | She jumped up joyfully at the hope . |