Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 5 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 10 | Howard went on to introduce his staff and patients , before ending up at the Doctor and Ace . |
| 11 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 12 | ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises . |
| 13 | The six naughtiest dogs in the North-East ranged from Bracken the cairn , who insisted on leaping up at every visitor , to Jessica the fearsome-looking rottweiler . |
| 14 | Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly . |
| 15 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 16 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 17 | Oh yes Jamie 's picking up at the weekend , that 's right . |
| 18 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 19 | Twenty four year old builder Ian Baxter , from Tilehurst in Reading , threatened to slice up the driver of a petrol tanker with a builder 's grinder when prevented from filling up at the Blewberry Service Station in Oxfordshire ; he hit the driver with the grinder , knocking out two of his teeth . |
| 20 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 23 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 24 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 25 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 26 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 27 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 28 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 29 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 30 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |