Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 2 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 3 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 4 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 5 | POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl . |
| 6 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 7 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 8 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 9 | Indeed , if you are lucky , on a clear day you might just be able to see the spring bubbling up at the bottom of the pond . |
| 10 | The superintendent looked up at the SOCO , posing the question like a doctor checking the symptoms of a sickly patient . |
| 11 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 12 | It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house . |
| 13 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 14 | The hedgehog peered up at the dog . |
| 15 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 16 | The overseer squinted up at the ceiling . |
| 17 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 18 | Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 . |
| 19 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 20 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | You can usually count on finding old Bill Waddy sitting up at the bar here , and old Gareth Holmroyd hovering about somewhere . ’ |
| 23 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 26 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 27 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 28 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 29 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 30 | They were standing there , eating crisps , their minds blank , when suddenly a smart green mini pulled up at the steps before them . |