Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 2 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 3 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 4 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 5 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 6 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |
| 7 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 8 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 9 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 10 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 11 | You 're supposed to be sitting up at the table . |
| 12 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 13 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 14 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 15 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 16 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 17 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 18 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |
| 19 | They were each offered a can of cold beer from a coolbox , and within a short time they were lining up at the barbecue , a plate in hand . |
| 20 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 21 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 22 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 23 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 24 | Oh yes Jamie 's picking up at the weekend , that 's right . |
| 25 | What they do n't like is turning up at the House of Commons and having to do some work , because they ca n't stand the pressure . |
| 26 | My brother is coming up at the end of the week to take them back with him , and he 'll tell them something then . ’ |
| 27 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 28 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 29 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 30 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |