Example sentences of "i [vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I gazed up at the building .
2 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
3 I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it .
4 I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience .
5 When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ?
6 But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man .
7 ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it .
8 I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine .
9 I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’
10 I glanced up at the sails , down at the compass , then ahead to where the lighthouse loom arced powerfully through the night .
11 Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door .
12 But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled .
13 I looked up at the building .
14 I looked up at the nurse , surprised by my name on a stranger 's lips .
15 I looked up at the sun .
16 I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass .
17 I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground .
18 I looked up at the clock .
19 As I thought these things , I looked up at the window .
20 I looked up at the mountain .
21 I looked up at the jumble of rooftops with their abundance of chimney-pots , the florid iron bal-conies at the dormer windows .
22 We paralleled Crow Road for a bit , and stopped , waiting for signals , outside Jordanhill station ; I looked up at the rear of the flats which fronted Crow Road , trying to work out which was Janice Rae 's .
23 I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me .
24 After the excitement died down , and I was being congratulated by my wee brother and the others , I looked up at the Edelmans ' window .
25 I queued up at the travel centre to pick up my copy .
26 I sat up at the counter and ordered Scotch on the rocks .
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