Example sentences of "up [adv] at the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
11 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
14 | dad , dad we 're not giving up just at the moment |
15 | If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This brings us up short at the outset of our study . |
18 | Montgomery looked up gratefully at the sound of rattling cups . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 … . |
22 | The patients are followed up partly at the outpatient department , partly at local hospitals . |
23 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
24 | 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 … . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . " |
27 | 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 . |
28 | She glanced up now at the night sky , her eyes searching among the infinitesimal pin-points of light , and wondered if he was out there somewhere , had approved of her bright , carefree behaviour tonight . |
29 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
30 | It is only prudent with most of the Dale 's ‘ Wares tied up here at the fortress . |