Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
| 2 | Domino hurtled past him , tail wagging madly , looking up expectantly at the stranger . |
| 3 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 4 | He gave Tina a sideways look and was surprised to see her staring up intently at the Monument . |
| 5 | no no the starlings seem to be pecking away at the top slabs are getting dry so I do n't know , er you see that man 's still up there , I wonder what he 's doing up there at the side |
| 6 | If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then . |
| 7 | The promotion race in the first division and coming up tomorrow at the County Ground , it is Swindon against Tranmere Rovers . |
| 8 | dad , dad we 're not giving up just at the moment |
| 9 | Dark , olive-tinged skin , with a hint of almost Mediterranean swarthiness … thick , dark hair , straight and standing up slightly at the front , swept back and cut short round the ears … a long , wide , ‘ boxer 's ’ sort of nose . |
| 10 | But was n't it a risk setting up alone at a time when you would n't be able to work continuously ? |