Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 2 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 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 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 5 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 6 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 7 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 8 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 9 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 10 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 11 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 12 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 13 | For example , when troubles blew up at the Heath Town Estate in the Midlands they were immediately compared with Broadwater Farm and the place labelled a ghetto in the way the media treated the incident . |
| 14 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 15 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 16 | He wore a tight khaki shirt , buttoned at the neck , and threadbare army denims turned up at the bottom . |
| 17 | We 'll certainly be putting firms in touch with others so that they can learn quickly from other experiences as quite a network of firms grew up at the seminar . |
| 18 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 19 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 20 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 21 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 22 | Dolores looked up at the Gallery |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 25 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 26 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |
| 27 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 28 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |
| 29 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 30 | He believes that such vast and unexpected escapes of sub-global meltwater might have occurred a number of times as the ice sheets broke up at the end the Ice Age . |