Example sentences of "up at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rodber looked raw while Cusani 's insistance on picking the ball up at every second scrum was one of the main reasons why the North 's centres never made much headway . |
| 2 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 3 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 4 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 5 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |
| 6 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 7 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 8 | Forget it ’ the A A said , ‘ forget it ’ the police said , ‘ forget it ’ , everybody in the town said ‘ forget it , it 's hard enough to walk up ’ and we took the truck up at a bloody run . |
| 9 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 10 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 11 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
| 12 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 13 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 14 | The Mad one turned up at a recent New York gig of fabulous , trendy , baggy-type band with organ , THE CHARLATANS ( UK ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 16 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 17 | Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market . |
| 18 | We live in Hastings and have relatives to stay most summers , the highlight of which is usually an evening out on the town , finishing up at a plush restaurant for dinner . |
| 19 | I fuel up at a wee petrol station just before the A9 and phone Fettes while the tank 's filling . |
| 20 | ‘ I get up at a quarter-to-five most mornings . |
| 21 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 22 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 23 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 24 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
| 25 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 26 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 27 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 28 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 29 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 30 | Rob Hill , one of England 's relative newcomers , gave them the lead , following up at a 10th-minute penalty corner , but the team allowed themselves to become rattled by the umpiring and Lahore equalised after 50 minutes . |