Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 3 | The superintendent looked up at the SOCO , posing the question like a doctor checking the symptoms of a sickly patient . |
| 4 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The hedgehog peered up at the dog . |
| 7 | The overseer squinted up at the ceiling . |
| 8 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 9 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 10 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 11 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 12 | They were standing there , eating crisps , their minds blank , when suddenly a smart green mini pulled up at the steps before them . |
| 13 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 14 | With the completion of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in that year , and the refusal of the town of Bewdley to have anything to do with it , a new town shot up at the point where the canal joined the Severn . |
| 15 | The cab drew up at the kerb . |
| 16 | The warning occurred after Puddephat 's name came up at the inquest into the death of an attractive flame-haired student , Melanie Gandell . |
| 17 | Fernando Serra , as seriously good-looking as ever , watched from the deck as his crew tied up at the jetty . |
| 18 | It is sometimes convenient to overwork the most efficient to the point where they become exhausted , but this is the quickest way to introduce bad habits such as leaving a kill or disregarding a rabbit tucked up at the end of a hole . |
| 19 | A young man in a black leather jacket jumped up at the bus window . |
| 20 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 21 | Carrie stood behind the counter of the dining rooms with her fair hair pulled up at the back of her head and held in place with a pair of large bone combs . |
| 22 | You 've got a fair bit of our money tied up at the moment , and naturally we 've got to see that it 's all right . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A thin streak of a woman bobbed up at the back . |
| 25 | Shaking the water from her matted hair and sodden white lab coat while drawing a series of relieved gulps of air , the woman looked up at the Marines with a weak smile . |
| 26 | The wind was strengthening in their faces , and more than one man looked up at the sky in puzzlement . |
| 27 | The beefy man looked up at the sound . |
| 28 | A row blew up at the borough council meeting when Tories said Labour lost the chance of attracting Kimberly Clark to Darlington by refusing to involve the town 's Tory MP Michael Fallon in the negotiations . |
| 29 | Instead he did her in Eleanor 's blue dress rucked up at the front to make entry possible . |
| 30 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |