Example sentences of "up at the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fathers looked up at the uniform ceiling of grey cloud and decided to put on tweed caps instead of Panamas . |
| 2 | I normally throw up at the mere mention of footy management , but Soccer Rivals is darn good . |
| 3 | She flashed green eyes , glaring up at the vague outline of his face with annoyance . |
| 4 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 5 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 8 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 9 | She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’ |
| 10 | By now they were in the square , and stood gazing up at the gilded splendour of the cathedral 's spire and turrets , bright in the low November sun . |
| 11 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 12 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 13 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 14 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 15 | ‘ What on earth are we doing here ? ’ she muttered , staring up at the familiar sight of an old converted warehouse overlooking the Thames . |
| 16 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 17 | Then he crossed the street in front of the National Gallery , glancing up at the massive edifice of the building in the process . |
| 18 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 19 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 20 | Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead , disappearing up into the dark . |
| 21 | Carolyn looked up at the quiet tone of Sue 's voice . |
| 22 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 23 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 24 | She was lying stretched out , her head against a pillow of lichen-covered stone , her eyes staring straight up at the incredible blue of the sky . |
| 25 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 26 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 27 | 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 . |