Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 2 | Just getting up at the start of the day without complaining , is an achievement . |
| 3 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 4 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 5 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 6 | Fergus took no notice ; he kept on crying , still staring up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 7 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 8 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 9 | But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station . |
| 10 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 11 | ‘ My Lady Maude will come to the tournament , ’ he said , then looking up at the friar , tapped the side of his fleshy nose . |
| 12 | After standing silently looking up at the Brooklyn sky for a few minutes , and reciting a poem , she then jumped back into the car . |
| 13 | That same mood was on him even now as he stood there looking up at the house . |
| 14 | Then the enormous effort that he had to make to move away from her , rolling heavily on to his back and then staring up at the sky . |
| 15 | The constable started to go round the car , examining it minutely occasionally glancing up at the WPC to confirm the impression he was making . |