Example sentences of "up [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | set that up right at the beginning which means going to the Inland Revenue |
| 2 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 3 | Because on the joist up right at the top near the side of the house , the brickwork , there 's erm I do n't well I ca n't describe them but cocoons or something like that . |
| 4 | Yeah , I would n't fill that up right at the top |
| 5 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
| 6 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 7 | Australian Ian Baker-Finch , an unknown player featuring in his first British Open , slipped up right at the start of the last day , hitting his second shot into the Swilcan Burn . |
| 8 | But you used to match them up together at the end of the day cos Brad used to see them off |
| 9 | You put it on again , zipping it up halfway at the back . |
| 10 | Like one of those European taxis that you get picked up in at the airport in Paris . ’ |
| 11 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 12 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 13 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 14 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 15 | dad , dad we 're not giving up just at the moment |
| 16 | She could hear the clatter of iron shutters being cranked up over at the amusement arcades . |
| 17 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 18 | This brings us up short at the outset of our study . |
| 19 | Montgomery looked up gratefully at the sound of rattling cups . |
| 20 | Ngo Van Dong stumbled to his feet and helped his brother up quickly at the approach of the squat figure of Phat , the overseer of their barrack . |
| 21 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
| 22 | But it might have been better to read it , for all during the show , creeping into her mind at every lull ( whenever , standing still , she had to gaze up adoringly at the hero , her Duke ) , an idea … . |
| 23 | The patients are followed up partly at the outpatient department , partly at local hospitals . |
| 24 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
| 25 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 26 | Dark , olive-tinged skin , with a hint of almost Mediterranean swarthiness … thick , dark hair , straight and standing up slightly at the front , swept back and cut short round the ears … a long , wide , ‘ boxer 's ’ sort of nose . |
| 27 | The aide-de-camp was quietly providing a running translation of the senator 's remarks and the governor looked up sharply at the mention of the word " independence . " |
| 28 | He looked up sharply at the sound of the door — Again ? he thought disbelievingly , and he winced as the movement aggravated the mild headache that he 'd brought home with him . |
| 29 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
| 30 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |