Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] up at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing changes , I 'm sitting in the stalls of the London Palladium gazing up at Tom Jones ' loud American-checked crutch . |
| 2 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 3 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 4 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 5 | Hari stood in Goat Street staring up at the facade of the old theatre and swallowed hard , trying to pluck up enough courage to walk into the ornate portico . |
| 6 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 7 | ’ He saw Wycliffe looking up at it . |
| 8 | It begins with Septimus Honeydew waking up at three in the morning and trotting off to Mum and Dad 's room . |
| 9 | Think of the prospect of John Major lining up at the London Marathon , or Neil Kinnnock limbering up before taking to the squash courts . |
| 10 | Malone continued to dominate with Colin Morrison cleaning up at the line out and Colin Wilkinson orchestrating things in the back line . |
| 11 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 12 | I looked down into the punt and saw Rachel gazing up at me from beneath a wide straw hat . |
| 13 | I lived in Hastings getting up at dawn every day to teach part-time in art colleges all over the country . |