Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 2 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 3 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 4 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
| 5 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 6 | Actually in the next few days stand up at home , speak it , say it , record it if you want to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then he turned , facing Hammond , his dark eyes looking up at him challengingly . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid — ’ Her bead-black eyes glinted up at Ellen Harker . |
| 12 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 13 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 14 | Five faceless individuals gaped up at him . |
| 15 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 16 | The beady little eyes stared up at her reproachfully , but they did n't see anything . |
| 17 | Her little eyes look up at me so trustfully , and she sleeps a lot and rarely cries . |
| 18 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 19 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 20 | That is , until one of Penfold 's Australian winemakers poled up at Geyser Peak winery in California and realised the price of Chardonnay was so high around the Sonoma Valley he 'd never manage to make a £4.99 class white for our market . |
| 21 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 22 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 25 | When the last shot had been fired and the troops left for the United States , many GIs turned up at embarkation points with loyal canine friends concealed in their kit bags . |
| 26 | The boy 's black eyes flicked up at his face impassively , with just the slightest suggestion of contempt . |
| 27 | No , even though their parties do n't officially start until 7.30pm , and actually until well after 9.00pm , all Hoorays turn up at parties in their work clothes , ie pinstripes . |
| 28 | Many pilots give up at 1000 feet when there is still a fair chance of finding something and getting away safely . |
| 29 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 30 | 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 . |