Example sentences of "[verb] up at the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |
| 2 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 3 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 4 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 5 | He fell back at once and lay quietly on the damp earth staring up at the now empty wall as his blood soaked into and congealed darkly upon the white of his shirt . |
| 6 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 7 | Yet , given the opportunity and some imaginative presentation , the urban population has shown that it is capable of responding , judging by the numbers who take an interest at county shows or who turn up at the pitifully few farms which organize public open days . |
| 8 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |