Example sentences of "up at the [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 2 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 3 | Pull up at the sweep-through drive and you enter a sophisticated property of airy , high arch ceilings and chandeliers , carefully carved mouldings of gold and classic furnishings of style . |
| 4 | I stopped , glared up at the wheeling gulls and a couple of thrushes , then got some grass and wiped the yellow-white mess off the front guard . |
| 5 | Riley looked up at the tall Scotsman and nudged Ben in the ribs . |
| 6 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 7 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 8 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 9 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 10 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 11 | Agnes looked up at the young man and simpered . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 14 | His trousers bunch round his ankles again , then catch round his boots and disappear over the edge of the chimney , kicking up at the last moment and hitting the grating ; the branch slips and the grating slams down . |
| 15 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 16 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 17 | Yes yes if members had any complaints about their work I would report it up at the head office and up up at the the branch office in Park . |
| 18 | Geoffrey Markham , the youngest Cumbermound boy , was up at the same time and they and the Bishop 's son , Thomas , formed something of a set . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |