Example sentences of "up at [art] [noun sg] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 2 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 3 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 4 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
| 5 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 6 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 7 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 8 | It has to be faced , said Grainne to Grainne , staring up at the ceiling where the shadows leapt and danced . |
| 9 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 12 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 13 | One night , after heavy drinking in Soho Minton turned up at the house where they were living , broke a window , and climbed in , saying , ‘ I just want to be part of you . ’ |
| 14 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 15 | It began as greed to steal and ended up at the point where they really were n't concerned about who they shot or why . |
| 16 | With the completion of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in that year , and the refusal of the town of Bewdley to have anything to do with it , a new town shot up at the point where the canal joined the Severn . |