Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 2 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 3 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 4 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 5 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 6 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 7 | Erm now er just just Philip just correct me er on the on the detail of this thing , er individuals pitch up at the tent , collect the collect the instructions |
| 8 | Well , the speedway season is upon us ; tapes go up at the Oxford Stadium on Friday . |
| 9 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 10 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 11 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 12 | Instead of dressing warmly for the elements , the bikers end up at the summit of popular hills dressed like Paul Weller in a Style Council video . |
| 13 | ‘ Paramedics would be used , field hospitals set up at the scene if necessary , helicopters from Whitechapel would fly out casualties , ’ added Mr Whitehead who said a triangle of hospitals would deal with the injured and all the plans were agreed by the airport 's consultative committee . |
| 14 | The others crop up at the door , holding Crilly . |
| 15 | Some of the students look up at the word ‘ castration ’ , admiring the cool poise with which Robyn pronounces it , as one might admire a barber 's expert manipulation of a cut-throat razor . |
| 16 | ‘ Romans line up at the camp and Brits over there in the woods , ’ Nigel instructed . |
| 17 | And although hundreds of young hopefuls turn up at the Storm offices in London each year most of Sarah 's ‘ finds ’ are chance encounters . |
| 18 | Yeah but I shall go for it but if any other jobs come up at the hospital I 'll apply for them |