Example sentences of "[verb] up at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 2 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 3 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 4 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 5 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 6 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 7 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 8 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 9 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 10 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 11 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 12 | The paper had been relaunched by Maurice Kinn , a successful London agent and promoter who , by turning up at an agreed location on the stroke of noon with £1,000 pounds of borrowed cash in hand , acquired the title and promptly added the New . |
| 13 | Other party leaders , such as the former Communist Herbert Wehner , agreed change was needed , and in November 1959 their views triumphed in the Bad Godesberg programme , drawn up at a special party meeting . |
| 14 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 15 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 16 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 17 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 18 | Smoking is on a steady decline among both men and women — but men pack up at a faster rate than women . |
| 19 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 20 | He also stocked up at a local health shop with various things he could nibble discreetly en route . |
| 21 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 22 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
| 23 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 24 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 25 | If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 26 | We live in Hastings and have relatives to stay most summers , the highlight of which is usually an evening out on the town , finishing up at a plush restaurant for dinner . |
| 27 | As with all hill climbing , a BM may end up at a local minimum . |
| 28 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 29 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 30 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |