Example sentences of "up at the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Riley looked up at the tall Scotsman and nudged Ben in the ribs . |
| 3 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Agnes looked up at the young man and simpered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |