Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extension 's roof sloped up at forty-five degrees to within about four feet of the roof proper . |
| 2 | Guy 's mouth kicked up at one corner in a wryly amused smile . |
| 3 | After the engine turned up at Three Bridges a BR spokesman — skilled at blaming delays on ‘ leaves on the line ’ — explained that lost trains did ‘ occasionally occur ’ . |
| 4 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 5 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 6 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 7 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 8 | By good fortune , the crew turned up at that moment . |
| 9 | But it is also worth while to check up at other times , because there is still a great deal about Epsilon Aurigæ which we do not know , and it may not shine quite steadily at any time . |
| 10 | I help him ; we lift the rusting grating up at one end but the far side is still secured by an iron pin and we ca n't shift it any further . |
| 11 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 12 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 13 | The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 . |
| 14 | A year ago at Unix Expo time we said IBM Corp was interested in moving AIX on to PC platforms other than its own to dispel its proprietary air ( UX No 359 ) : true to the promise , Blue turned up at this year 's Expo with AIX PS/2 Version 1.3 supporting non-Micro Channel boxes and running on Dell Computer Corp , AST Research Inc and Compaq Computer Corp . |
| 15 | I returned to my base temple , bought a Coke from one of the girls whose face lit up at another biscuit ; and chatted with the fleet-of-foot , richly named Flavio Chuquiwillca Huallpa and his boy companion . |