Example sentences of "[vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |
| 2 | The cab drew up at the kerb . |
| 3 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 4 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 5 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 6 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 7 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 8 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 9 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 10 | BUSINESSMEN in Shanghai lined up at the weekend for the city 's first auction of lucky telephone numbers since the 1949 revolution . |
| 11 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 12 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 13 | Hrun peered up at the sky . |
| 14 | The hedgehog peered up at the dog . |
| 15 | A lot of activity on the ceiling , too … as Ninereeds hovered , thumping the air with his wings , Twoflower peered up at the shapes of roosting beasts and tiny men-shaped dots that were somehow walking upside down . |
| 16 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 17 | In silence we worked , completely indifferent to the freezing cold , as the pile built up at the side of the house . |
| 18 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 19 | I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it |
| 20 | On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher . |
| 21 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 22 | The overseer squinted up at the ceiling . |
| 23 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 24 | She squinted up at the sun . |
| 25 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 26 | Nathan squinted up at the masthead , then gazed into his coffee-mug . |
| 27 | Rincewind squinted up at the sword . |
| 28 | Curtis squinted up at the sheriff through the curling smoke of the cigarette he had just lit . |
| 29 | The warning occurred after Puddephat 's name came up at the inquest into the death of an attractive flame-haired student , Melanie Gandell . |
| 30 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |