Example sentences of "up with a start " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked up with a start . |
| 2 | Looking up with a start , Daisy saw that Ricky was actually smiling . |
| 3 | Two completely trivial points must be mentioned as they may bring readers up with a start : in the first movement of the Sibelius symphony at 3′17″ ( bar 40 ) , the third trombone plays E sharp instead of E natural , and in the first movement of the Shostakovich ( track 7 , 7′19″ , six bars after fig. 16 ) the bassoon plays a G natural instead of a flat . |
| 4 | Dubois jumped up with a start , and visibly relaxed when he saw who had interrupted him . |
| 5 | Joseph looked up with a start and nodded vigorously although he had n't heard a word his father had said . |
| 6 | ‘ Alexander said I ought to wear these , ’ she explained , bright-cheeked , as Lisa sat up with a start . |
| 7 | But that night , when he is asleep , the creature enters his chamber and rips back his curtain — so ! — so that he wakes up with a start to find its dreadful gaze upon him , and its hand out-stretched for his throat ! |
| 8 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 9 | In spite of her discomfort , she must have dozed off , because she found herself sitting up with a start , all her senses suddenly alerted by the sound of a key , the creak of a hinge . |
| 10 | You Judas ! ’ shouted the devil-man , and all the piglets woke up with a start and hurtled round the lock-up colliding with prisoners and shrieking like souls in torment : a blitz of piglets . |
| 11 | Then she remembered ; the car , the box , the head , she sat up with a start only to clatter back down again . |
| 12 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 13 | She sat up with a start , blinking , to find the room full of electric light again , and her host occupied in turning off the lamps , his face streaked with oil and his black hair wildly untidy , but with an air of triumph about him which she registered with some amusement . |
| 14 | IF Little Nemo in Slumberland ever met Tank Girl he would wake up with a start and ensure he never perchanced to dream again . |