Example sentences of "up at a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
2 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
11 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
12 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
13 | The Mad one turned up at a recent New York gig of fabulous , trendy , baggy-type band with organ , THE CHARLATANS ( UK ) . |
14 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
15 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I fuel up at a wee petrol station just before the A9 and phone Fettes while the tank 's filling . |
19 | ‘ I get up at a quarter-to-five most mornings . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 ] . |
22 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
25 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
26 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
29 | 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 . |
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 . |