Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing changes , I 'm sitting in the stalls of the London Palladium gazing up at Tom Jones ' loud American-checked crutch . |
| 2 | I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time . |
| 3 | She lay on the pavement staring up at Maura Ryan , amazed . |
| 4 | Actually , it could have been ‘ See , you ! ’ — and I 've even told people since that it was ‘ See you , Jimmy ’ — but then and there , lying flat on my back looking up at Shifty-Eyes and still holding his foot , all I really registered was that the ‘ you ’ came out as just ‘ U ’ . |
| 5 | However , a tax credit of £1.8m checked the slump in Pergamon 's net result with earnings per share holding up at 2.9p ( 4.1p ) . |
| 6 | While stadium staff spent the day clearing up at Brafield , the organisers expressed regret at the number of arrests , but insisted that Saturday night 's rave is the shape of things to come … |
| 7 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 8 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
| 9 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
| 10 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
| 11 | There are some first-class people in charge , men such as Peter Browne and Laurie Kelly , and you find ex-TVH men popping up at stadia all over the world to give you a shout . |
| 12 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 13 | A noticeboard bearing a multitude of papers half pinned over each other , or with yellowing papers curling up at corners , is not an attractive or useful sight . |
| 14 | We stood around the bottom of the stage looking up at Wilkerson . |
| 15 | I lived in Hastings getting up at dawn every day to teach part-time in art colleges all over the country . |