Example sentences of "[verb] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 2 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 4 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 5 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 6 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 7 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 8 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |
| 11 | The cab drew up at the kerb . |
| 12 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 13 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 14 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 15 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 16 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 17 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 18 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 19 | BUSINESSMEN in Shanghai lined up at the weekend for the city 's first auction of lucky telephone numbers since the 1949 revolution . |
| 20 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 21 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 22 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 23 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 24 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 25 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 26 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 27 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 28 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 29 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 30 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |