Example sentences of "[vb past] up at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 2 | Also had further letter from Notts County Council about Nottinghamshire Minerals local plan , asking us again if we have any representations to make , I think it was decided at a previous meeting that we did not , erm Colin Williamson , production of development and planning at Newton and Sherwood District Council , it 's proposal to run seminars for Parish Councils on planning policies , law and procedures , and we would like to know erm whether erm we would be interested in attending , and how many people would wish , he he has earmarked temporarily twenty eighth of March , which is a Monday , as a possible date at town hall , so if er if you think that would be something that you would be erm interested in going to , the topics erm are really I think things that came up at the Parish Council 's conference , the questions about planning , about the rules , and the policies , and the procedures etcetera , the erm , and visitors were talking last thing for sixth of December for five minutes , and the discussion for half an hour to three quarters , commencing at half past seven , so er if anyone 's interested in attending that ? |
| 3 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 4 | BNP candidate Dr Donald Clarke turned up at the Dolphin Centre to join the town 's three other candidates in a meeting organised by Darlington Environmental Watch . |
| 5 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 6 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 7 | STAFF AT Lincoln turbine Service Limited turned up at the Moat House Hotel , Aberdeen on 5 December for their five-course Christmas Dinner [ well , who would n't ] . |
| 8 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 9 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |
| 10 | Centre Tim Horan was a firm favourite with the black and coloured youngsters who showed up at the Wallaby coach-in held at the Dan Qeqe Stadium in the Zwide township near Port Elizabeth . |
| 11 | Dada nodded up at the silver horse . |
| 12 | Watching as he grinned up at the bus driver , said something and laughed , she felt a hollow ache inside . |
| 13 | Travis glanced up at the lowering sun . |
| 14 | Glanced up at the kitchen clock . |
| 15 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
| 16 | He glanced up at the mantel clock , then across at Mrs Burger . |
| 17 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 21 | They worked well together and soon they tied up at the town quay . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 24 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 25 | The big one looked up at the night sky , seeking inspiration . |
| 26 | Switching off , Dalgliesh looked up at the oil portrait of his maternal great-grandfather , the Victorian bishop , robed but unmitred , his arms in their billowing lawn sleeves confidently resting on the arms of the chair . |
| 27 | He looked up at the apple tree and replied , ‘ It makes no fucking difference , Piper , where you dig it . |
| 28 | At one minute to air , Scott grinned across to the other newscaster , looked up at the control room , and nodded . |
| 29 | She looked up at the bedroom ceiling , where a pale stain recalled a burst pipe nearly fifteen months ago . |
| 30 | I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me . |