Example sentences of "[vb past] up at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 34 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 35 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | We all stared up at the great tower which soared six storeys above us . |
| 38 | Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch . |
| 39 | Cranston , his mouth full of food , stared up at the blackened ceiling , coveting the leg of ham hooked there to be cured in the smoke . |
| 40 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 41 | He then stared up at the blue sky . |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she began to apologise as she turned the lock and pulled back the door , ‘ I should have — ’ Then she stopped , speechless , as she stared up at the tall figure of Robert Sheldrake . |
| 43 | I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever . |
| 44 | He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon . |
| 45 | She stared up at the granite-harsh features , trembling as much from the insidious effect of his hands on her back , pressing her against the male strength of his body , as from her growing anger at his arrogant , hurtful lack of confidence in her … |
| 46 | The deep , concerned voice broke through the dark haze of unconsciousness , and she blinked and stared up at the shadowy image of Guy Sterne 's face , bending over her . |
| 47 | Still feeling perturbed , he went back into his house , lay on his pallet bed and stared up at the flaking ceiling . |
| 48 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 49 | Isabel stared up at the royal castle high on its hill overlooking the town and wondered what the grim stone fortress would mean to her . |
| 50 | Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen . |
| 51 | Outside Benjamin stared up at the darkening sky . |
| 52 | The Rifleman stared at his enemy just as many of the crowd in the entrance hall stared up at the blood-soaked Rifleman . |
| 53 | ‘ I do n't know what , ’ replied Mr. Gordon , looking grave as he stared up at the circling plane . |
| 54 | Corbett leaned back on the bench and stared up at the smoke-blackened beams . |
| 55 | He stared up at the starlit sky and shivered , not only from the biting cold but his own sombre fear of what might await him . |
| 56 | The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her . |
| 57 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 58 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 59 | Mark looked up at the tiny speck in the stratosphere and imagined he could hear the air hostess requesting passengers to fasten their seat belts . |
| 60 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |