Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up at [art] " in BNC.

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1 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
2 I gazed up at the building .
3 I expect I woke up at the wrong time .
4 I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it .
5 Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial .
6 When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ?
7 I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience .
8 But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man .
9 I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine .
10 ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it .
11 I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’
12 I glanced up at the sails , down at the compass , then ahead to where the lighthouse loom arced powerfully through the night .
13 Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door .
14 But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled .
15 As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona .
16 I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever .
17 I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings .
18 I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando .
19 Now I looked up at the ‘ sonic ’ photos on the wall .
20 I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti .
21 After the excitement died down , and I was being congratulated by my wee brother and the others , I looked up at the Edelmans ' window .
22 I looked up at the nurse , surprised by my name on a stranger 's lips .
23 I looked up at the mountain .
24 I looked up at the jumble of rooftops with their abundance of chimney-pots , the florid iron bal-conies at the dormer windows .
25 We paralleled Crow Road for a bit , and stopped , waiting for signals , outside Jordanhill station ; I looked up at the rear of the flats which fronted Crow Road , trying to work out which was Janice Rae 's .
26 Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room .
27 I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin .
28 I looked up at the clock .
29 As I thought these things , I looked up at the window .
30 I looked up at the sun .
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