Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 2 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 3 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 4 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 5 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 6 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 7 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 8 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 9 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 10 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 11 | For example , when troubles blew up at the Heath Town Estate in the Midlands they were immediately compared with Broadwater Farm and the place labelled a ghetto in the way the media treated the incident . |
| 12 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 13 | He wore a tight khaki shirt , buttoned at the neck , and threadbare army denims turned up at the bottom . |
| 14 | We 'll certainly be putting firms in touch with others so that they can learn quickly from other experiences as quite a network of firms grew up at the seminar . |
| 15 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 16 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 17 | Dolores looked up at the Gallery |
| 18 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 19 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 20 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |
| 21 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |
| 22 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 23 | He believes that such vast and unexpected escapes of sub-global meltwater might have occurred a number of times as the ice sheets broke up at the end the Ice Age . |
| 24 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 25 | But now … hands and handkerchiefs and newspapers waved from every window of the train , and smiling faces looked up at the children on the fence . |
| 26 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 27 | A specimen fixed 24h after wounding , showing the large concentration of F-actin in the epidermal cells piled up at the site of wound closure ( see also Fig. 1 f ) . |
| 28 | Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg . |