Example sentences of "[vb past] up at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 2 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 3 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 4 | Harriet squinted up at the dark sky with businesslike appraisal . |
| 5 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 6 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 7 | Later the same day Douglas , Duke of Hamilton — frustrated past belief turned up at the Foreign Office in London and informed them that he was seeking an urgent audience with the King . |
| 8 | Victorine was confused by the tale Baptiste had told her just now when he and his mother turned up at the back door with Léonie 's sandal and an armful of bread . |
| 9 | The conference theme ‘ A Better Mousetrap ’ , ties in with the centenary of crime novelist Agatha Christie , who turned up at The Old Swan after her own mysterious disappearance , and the titles of some of the papers will reflect the investigation , detection and arrest of some villains that threaten our property , our health or our lives . |
| 10 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 11 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 12 | Tuppe gazed up at the crumbling façade . |
| 13 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 14 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 15 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 16 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 17 | Gazed up at the clear evening sky and slouched away without his coat . |
| 18 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 19 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 20 | She glanced up at the blackened night sky , pin-pointed with stars so wondrous that it made her feel like crying , and wished she were home , warm and safe in bed . |
| 21 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 22 | George glanced up at the clear sky . |
| 23 | Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door . |
| 24 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 25 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 26 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 27 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 28 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 29 | Well , I think you 're you 're putting your finger on the issue that we brought up at the very beginning about this man in the churchyard . |
| 30 | We all stared up at the great tower which soared six storeys above us . |