Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 2 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 3 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 4 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 5 | On November 28 Hatta resigned from the office of Vice-president , deploring the drift towards chaos : ‘ All our rebellions and our splits , our political anarchy and adventurism , and all the steps taken in the economic field which have created chaos , are the result of the fact that our national Revolution was not dammed up at the appropriate time . ’ |
| 6 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |
| 7 | I normally throw up at the mere mention of footy management , but Soccer Rivals is darn good . |
| 8 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 9 | Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door . |
| 10 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 11 | He also stocked up at a local health shop with various things he could nibble discreetly en route . |
| 12 | All of this has been enacted and realised and completed in Jesus himself , and the meaning of sin , so far as we are concerned , is only really opened up at the very place where it is borne and done away with . |
| 13 | I would have tried to ask Dudley Wood , secretary to the RFU , but he did n't show up at the new kit 's launch … |
| 14 | ‘ You mean if he does n't show up at the right time the opportunity wo n't occur again ? ’ |
| 15 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 16 | He then stared up at the blue sky . |
| 17 | Artemis curtsied again , and then stared up at the beautiful and elegant woman . |
| 18 | He studied him a moment , intently , almost fiercely , then pointed up at the overhead camera . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 21 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |