Example sentences of "up at the [noun] [conj] " 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 I was practically up at the top as well , I was really pissed off , just sitting there for like , for two hours , whilst my dad went all the way down to the bottom of this thing .
3 He stared up at the windows and then caught sight of the pulpit .
4 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 .
5 He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak .
6 Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass .
12 He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him .
13 I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground .
14 He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him .
15 And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete .
16 Like dacite domes , rhyolite domes often form within the crater of a preexisting volcano , but they may equally well pop up at the surface as isolated extrusions , not visibly related to any volcano .
17 On the concourse people stood around gazing up at the departure and arrival boards , checking times of trains .
18 We can always finish up at the Boar if things do n't improve . ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Staring up at the ceiling while work proceeds on her thighs and knees , Lil continues .
24 She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ?
25 She looked up at the ceiling and shivered .
26 Harry stared up at the ceiling and followed with his eye the pattern of the coving .
27 She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling and her thoughts immediately flashed back to Luke and last night .
28 He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke .
29 Jimmy looked up at the ceiling when he heard it .
30 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 .
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