Example sentences of "[vb past] up at [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it
2 He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about .
3 He wore a leather beret to conceal his black hair , tinted wrap-around glasses and a coat turned up at the collar which masked the lower half of his face .
4 With a steady breeze blowing , and a blue sky puffed with cotton-wool clouds , a day 's windsurfing would concentrate her mind away from him , blow the shadows away , perhaps , and if by some chance Luke turned up at the club it would be easy enough to avoid him .
5 But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man .
6 Outside again she glanced up at the sky which was a pale shade of blue .
7 On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water .
8 Eyes rounded in appalled realisation , she stared up at the man who stood stooped in the confined space up ahead .
9 Christina looked up at the sky which was an ominous navy blue .
10 But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone .
11 Alice looked up at the lamp which was like an iron tarantula hanging from its web .
12 With staring , dilated eyes , Kelly looked up at the man who held her .
13 She let go of Adam 's arm and rose ; then looked up at the man who stood there .
14 Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair .
15 Peter looked up at the archway which reached a peak just above the level of the garage roofs .
16 She glared up at the man who had been invading her dreams , for a second not even sure if she was awake or asleep .
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