Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a swirl of pink-blue-purple scum , the eyes stare up at her , unwinking . |
| 2 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 3 | The lines open up at 12.30 . |
| 4 | The fishwives pack up at lunchtime . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He paused at the foot of the stairs to look up at her . |
| 7 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 8 | The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Instead of dressing warmly for the elements , the bikers end up at the summit of popular hills dressed like Paul Weller in a Style Council video . |
| 11 | The pieces all on the tray , the girls looked up at their new lodger . |
| 12 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |
| 13 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 14 | The police turned up at his home after midnight on the night Joanna went missing and searched the house from top to bottom , even taking away his clothes for tests . |
| 15 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 16 | ‘ Where to today ? ’ he asked as they set off , weaving between the trams drawn up at the Statue terminus and careful to avoid getting their tyres caught in the tramlines . |
| 17 | This should have been a happy and holy occasion but the expressions on the faces looking up at him — Denis , Hana , Uncle Mick , Carmella , now pale and shaken , even poor Joey — told him more than any words how empty the action was . |
| 18 | Some of the students look up at the word ‘ castration ’ , admiring the cool poise with which Robyn pronounces it , as one might admire a barber 's expert manipulation of a cut-throat razor . |
| 19 | The adventurers end up at a confluence of shafts , one of which leads to the Bloodheart itself . |
| 20 | The others crop up at the door , holding Crilly . |
| 21 | ‘ One of the — the adults turns up at the shop every day , I think . |
| 22 | The next morning the boys got up at six o'clock . |
| 23 | The boys gazed up at him in rapture . |
| 24 | Opening the lid , she stared down at the emeralds glinting up at her like cat 's eyes , her mother 's emeralds and her grandmother 's and many generations of Grenfell women before her . |
| 25 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |