Example sentences of "[verb] up at [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |
| 2 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 3 | There are few spatial experiences in this country to rank beside that sudden sideways shift from the masculine world of military triumphs and smiling shepherdesses on the Doric frieze of the Royal Fort 's entrance hall into the amazing feminine world of willow-pattern fantasy that swirls up at an angle in the great stairwell . |
| 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 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 8 | In 1713 , at the election for the City of London ( where the franchise was vested in the liverymen ) , " a great Mob of Weavers and such people " ( who were presumably not enfranchised ) turned up at the Guildhall in support of the Whigs , and " made a disturbance and caus 'd much fighting and quarrelling " , although the four Tory candidates eventually carried the day , " notwithstanding the Rabble " . |
| 9 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 10 | The man posed as a gas board official when he turned up at the restaurant in Tarrant Street , Arundel , Sussex . |
| 11 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 12 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 15 | Fergus took no notice ; he kept on crying , still staring up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 16 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 17 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 18 | At Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire an entirely new settlement mainly composed of inns , grew up at the point in the parish where the Holyhead road left the Roman Watling Street and struck north-west towards Daventry . |
| 19 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 20 | The wind was strengthening in their faces , and more than one man looked up at the sky in puzzlement . |
| 21 | She saw herself again in John 's room in Pimlico , washing up at the sink in the corner . |
| 22 | But there is no doubt the 39-year-old batsman wants to be calling the shots when the Ashes series winds up at The Oval in August . |
| 23 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 26 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 27 | He would often turn up at the factory in his best suit , get involved in a maintenance problem with his fitter and end up covered in grease . |