Example sentences of "[noun sg] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 2 | She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees . |
| 3 | One thin , ring-studded hand held the skirt up at the front but the back went trail , trail , trail on the ground , sweeping up wisps of hay with the feathers . |
| 4 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 5 | Quickly dragging her gaze from his splendid body , Polly stared with intense concentration up at the mainsail , then down at the compass as embarrassment flamed her face . |
| 6 | It makes sense to gear up at the car — as the descent leads logically back to this point . |
| 7 | Erm , again in my experience the a any additional material usually runs from the close of the enquiry , and I 'm well aware of of the turning up at the end of the enquiry . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a portrait up at the Hall of a woman wearing a lovely dress , ’ Constance told her mother , as they were both sewing in the drawing room . |
| 9 | Yeah , something where you can put the bar up at the back |
| 10 | er , er , her son was a teacher up at the school Ivor |
| 11 | Grindlewood , built in the Palladian style , turned its nose up at the rest of us with its columns and porticoes and pilasters . |
| 12 | She rooted through the cupboards , turned her nose up at the dishes in the sink , selected tea cups and located the caddy . |
| 13 | It comes as some surprise , therefore , to hear one of the men likely to benefit turning his nose up at the prospect of winning a ‘ cheap cap ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ That young Londoner up at the farm , you say ? |
| 15 | Thomas Duke ( mentioned earlier ) occupied a cottage up at the mine , probably in Irish Row , and it was bad enough , or unfinished enough , to require 170½ square yards of plastering , for which Miles Mason was paid £5 : 13s , 4d . |
| 16 | That 's the only one that ever I remembered but they were all , and they you know they , they used to graze their horses up there in that field up at the top , and this Billy that used to go round all the district and , and buy up all these old cast horses and bring them up there until he had a consignment gathered up . |
| 17 | Erm no , well have a look up at the back and see if you can see anything . |
| 18 | And finally … if you 're in the Didcot area of Oxfordshire tonight , take a look up at the Power Station . |
| 19 | She rang hubby up at the team hotel the afternoon of the match and told him which way to dive should beardsley get a penno. £ |
| 20 | But uhum , it sticks , whilst the other one just curls straight back up at the edges did n't it . |
| 21 | There was a sign up at the airport — John Wayne Airport , naturally — that read CALIFORNIA : WE 'VE HAD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HERE FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS . |
| 22 | Elsewhere , JESUS JONES ’ jovial MIKE EDWARDS — a man never ashamed to fill his wallet up at the drop of a hat — could be heard regaling the select with details of his latest project , which we hear is a remix of a BON JOVI track . |
| 23 | It 's actually got sixteen bars of start up at the moment , in short score , |
| 24 | They used to ring a bell up at the hotel . |
| 25 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 26 | ‘ But Louise , ’ she was saying , ‘ I ca n't imagine how that old maid up at the hall could have got to know . |
| 27 | ‘ She thinks more of that old maid up at the Hall than she does of me , her own mother , I can assure you of that . ’ |
| 28 | there 's a ha hand up at the back . |
| 29 | If you put your hand up at the side there you can still see it even though you 're looking straight , even though I 'm looking straight ahead Matt I can still see that , try it . |
| 30 | Put your hand up at the side and |