Example sentences of "and [vb base] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 2 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 3 | Walk through and look up at the Parler net vaulting with the crown of Bohemia on the boss . |
| 4 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 5 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 6 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 7 | Stand here and look up at the River Esk a famous salmon fishing river ; and across the river at St. Mary 's church , at the top of 199 steps , furnished by local shipwrights . |
| 8 | Every night a vila — a wicked fairy who lived in the clouds and mist up at the top of the mountain-caused the whole hillside to tremble and heave so that the walls fell down , the stones fell apart , and all their work was to do again . |
| 9 | Float on my back a bit and stare up at the stars . ’ |
| 10 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
| 11 | But this ruse gives a chance for Nestor and the gallery of small time crooks and pimps to be transported to Devil 's Island , an escape on a raft in a storm and end up at the North Pole for a sequence with a dancing penguin and a polar bear , to give the show a Christmas gloss . |