Example sentences of "[verb] up at the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 2 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 3 | Lewis stood on the front lawn , looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 5 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 6 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 7 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 8 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
| 9 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 10 | ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club . |
| 11 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 12 | And although hundreds of young hopefuls turn up at the Storm offices in London each year most of Sarah 's ‘ finds ’ are chance encounters . |
| 13 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 14 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 15 | Er Moderator er there is n't any reason in principle why this sh should n't happen that er this subject could n't come up at the presbytery clerks conference . |
| 16 | Today JR will turn up at the Borders roads committee meeting in a Pringle of Scotland creation , complete with Saltire design , as worn by the golfer Colin Montgomerie at last year 's Scottish Open . |