Example sentences of "up at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 2 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 3 | They were still within the normal range of intelligence , however , and some babies born as much as 12 weeks early end up at the top of the class 10 years later , according to findings announced by Dr Leonora Harding , of Aberdeen University , to the British Psychological Society . |
| 4 | The fact that you are up at the top of a business hierarchy does not confer all-seeing wisdom . |
| 5 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 6 | We picked Yvonne up at the top of the slip by the RNLI shed where they sold stuff to help pay for the lifeboat . |
| 7 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 8 | Every night a vila — a wicked fairy who lived in the clouds and mist up at the top of the mountain-caused the whole hillside to tremble and heave so that the walls fell down , the stones fell apart , and all their work was to do again . |
| 9 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 10 | She wondered what they were saying about her , up at the top of the house , as she undressed and laid her clothes out before sliding under the duvet in her underwear . |
| 11 | You want them up at the top of the sheet , where they 're going to be seen first ( they look that good ) . |
| 12 | KQ VI may be criticised as being too easy and not achieving anything new — forget that , it is good old fashioned family entertainment , and with now Kings Quest VI and Quest for Glory III Sierra are back up at the top of the pile ! |
| 13 | We had a playhouse , up at the top of the fields . |
| 14 | Up at the top of the city , the refuse trucks are nowhere in sight . |
| 15 | No no no no there was nobody , now er probably up at the top of Gallway there though one or two would have er stables I should think , one or two of those houses , but by and large no I should n't think so . |
| 16 | ‘ Rotherham are right up at the top of the table and they are there on merit . |
| 17 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 18 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 20 | He looked up at the windows of the house . |
| 21 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 22 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 23 | He glanced up at the windows of the three handsome houses . |
| 24 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 25 | I like it because it 's old , and grey , and dark , and yet I hate — ’ He did not finish what he was saying , staring angrily up at the windows on the top floor of his house . |
| 26 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 27 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 28 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |
| 29 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 30 | Morse stood where he was , listening , and staring up at the sky as if viewing the unsuspected behaviour of some distant galaxy . |