Example sentences of "up at [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |
| 2 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 3 | Smoking is on a steady decline among both men and women — but men pack up at a faster rate than women . |
| 4 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 5 | The principle horrified hi-fi buffs when it was first announced , because it chopped the sound wave up at an ultrasonic rate and described each ‘ slice ’ as a binary number . |
| 6 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 7 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 8 | He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mad dogs and Englishmen and all that , she mused , glaring up at the hot sun that glared back . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Riley looked up at the tall Scotsman and nudged Ben in the ribs . |
| 14 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 15 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Agnes looked up at the young man and simpered . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 26 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They proceeded slowly in the afternoon sun , Victoria content to gaze up at the massed conifers as they passed and listen to the rhythmic grating of the eight small horse-shoes on the roadway . |
| 29 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 30 | Is the , is the projected grant likely to go up at the same rate as in , as in nine ninety four , ninety five ? |