Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road .
2 She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest .
3 and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine .
4 She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue .
5 I slithered in his wake , looking up hopelessly at the great smooth wilderness rearing above us .
6 ‘ Entirely unnecessary , although for the sake of complete understanding you might like to know that this , ’ Lacuna turned abruptly to the blond girl , who recoiled , ducking her head , and then looking up meekly at the tall woman , ‘ is called Britta . ’
7 Domino hurtled past him , tail wagging madly , looking up expectantly at the stranger .
8 Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing .
9 What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm .
10 he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm .
11 Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine .
12 Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job .
13 I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ?
14 The controversy over criteria for granting Latvian citizenship flared up again at the end of March , when President Anatolijs Gorbunovs proposed that a referendum be held on the issue [ for October and November 1991 controversy see p. 38585 ] .
15 Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see
16 Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking .
17 As he edged forward , Sendei glanced up occasionally at the far end .
18 She glanced up now at the night sky , her eyes searching among the infinitesimal pin-points of light , and wondered if he was out there somewhere , had approved of her bright , carefree behaviour tonight .
19 He gave Tina a sideways look and was surprised to see her staring up intently at the Monument .
20 no no the starlings seem to be pecking away at the top slabs are getting dry so I do n't know , er you see that man 's still up there , I wonder what he 's doing up there at the side
21 Peterson commented to Brigham Young University President Holland , generously , on the ‘ remarkable coincidence that such similar research had sprung up independently at the two universities . ’
22 If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then .
23 The promotion race in the first division and coming up tomorrow at the County Ground , it is Swindon against Tranmere Rovers .
24 Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation .
25 dad , dad we 're not giving up just at the moment
26 It is only prudent with most of the Dale 's ‘ Wares tied up here at the fortress .
27 Or paper bags tied up tight at the neck .
28 The O'Neil double-act started up again at the other end of the church , Denis responding to Paddy .
29 The patients are followed up partly at the outpatient department , partly at local hospitals .
30 We 've tightened up considerably at the back , and that 's very pleasing from my point of view . ’
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