Example sentences of "[v-ing] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 2 | MGM 's studio at Borehamwood , on the northwest edge of London and just along the road from Elstree , was made by Kubrick to accommodate a space station interior over 300 feet ( 90m ) long , sloping up at one end nearly 40 feet ( 12m ) . |
| 3 | So what time are you er picking up at one . |
| 4 | He raised his voice , looking up at one of the security cameras . |
| 5 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 6 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
| 7 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 8 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 9 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 10 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 11 | ‘ This is profanation , ’ he said harshly , looking up at last . |
| 12 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 13 | When he opened the door and saw who 'd come for him he did n't expect to be waking up at all . |
| 14 | Well I , I had a period of waking up at four |
| 15 | It begins with Septimus Honeydew waking up at three in the morning and trotting off to Mum and Dad 's room . |
| 16 | As Christmas approaches goods like these are turning up at one day sales , car boot sales and market stalls . |
| 17 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 18 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 19 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 20 | Among his worst crimes are not being married , not turning up at milking times and stealing food . ’ |
| 21 | Quite a gesture , turning up at this hour . |
| 22 | There are some posh flats going up at neighbouring Royal Quays which will provide building jobs : ‘ It 's Sun City in the middle of Bantustan , ’ a Labour councillor said to me . |
| 23 | No , be honest now : we were n't going up at all . |
| 24 | Achieving a maths mark in double figures ( all tests are marked out of 50 ) was about as likely as Iceland winning the Eurovision song contest or Michael Jackson growing up to be normal ( or growing up at all come to that ! ) . |
| 25 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 26 | Gazing up at gay Shepherd apprehensively , Jack saw that his eyes were nugget hard , as if any kindness or compassion had disappeared years ago . |
| 27 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 28 | Yeah I just swore at my father did well I said getting up at six o'clock in the morning every day and then go to work till six at night cos during the day I get tired so I use to lay down on his bunk then he 'd lift his little hat a way up and he 'd say er bloody fire 's out . |
| 29 | She had been tired after her early shift , which had necessitated getting up at six ; perhaps that was why she had slipped so easily into that state of contented , almost hypnotic languor . |
| 30 | what getting up at six every morning ? |