Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 3 | For two weeks Uli and I have spent every daylight hour gazing up at it , seeing it in its flesh and bone , so to speak , for the first time — yet so utterly familiar and loved . ’ |
| 4 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 5 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 6 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 7 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 8 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 9 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 10 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 12 | Nothing changes , I 'm sitting in the stalls of the London Palladium gazing up at Tom Jones ' loud American-checked crutch . |
| 13 | Rex gazed up at him . |
| 14 | Lucy gazed up at him . |
| 15 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 16 | Andy looks up at John . |
| 17 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 18 | A Coronation car framed up at Wakefield . |
| 19 | Six little yellow eyes peered up at him . |
| 20 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 21 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 22 | Carol looked up at the weathercock as the car drew up at her house in the cobbled square . |
| 23 | The car drew up at one of the big houses on the prosperous shore road , facing the grassy slope that led up to the promenade . |
| 24 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 25 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 26 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 27 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 28 | Ari squinted up at him , still nestled against his chest . |
| 29 | POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl . |
| 30 | Then he turned , facing Hammond , his dark eyes looking up at him challengingly . |