Example sentences of "up at the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something . |
| 2 | He stared up at the windows and then caught sight of the pulpit . |
| 3 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 4 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 5 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 6 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 7 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 8 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 9 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 10 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 11 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |
| 12 | On the concourse people stood around gazing up at the departure and arrival boards , checking times of trains . |
| 13 | We float in silence , listening to the melodic , descending whistle of the ubiquitous canyon wren , gazing up at the ravens and turkey vultures , scanning the cliffs for deer and sheep . |
| 14 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 15 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 16 | She looked past the strolling holidaymakers at the gaily-painted shops along the front , then looked up at the hillside and , beyond it , the Wall , towering over all . |
| 17 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 18 | Harry stared up at the ceiling and followed with his eye the pattern of the coving . |
| 19 | She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling and her thoughts immediately flashed back to Luke and last night . |
| 20 | Cranston squatted down with his back to the wall , smacked his lips and gazed hungrily up at the hams and other meats hanging from ropes on the rafters to be cured . |
| 21 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 22 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 23 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 24 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 25 | ‘ Romans line up at the camp and Brits over there in the woods , ’ Nigel instructed . |
| 26 | you bring it up at the update and get some feedback from that |
| 27 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So I stayed outside , staring up at the moon and the stars with a beating heart , wishing and dreaming of a different , more exciting life . |
| 30 | William looked up at the clock and saw that it was nearing four o'clock . |