Example sentences of "up at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas .
2 However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities .
3 Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example .
4 Get a , get a twelve volt car bulb and start it up at twelve volts and wind the voltage up .
5 Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations .
6 I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below …
7 The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero .
8 Asthma tends to flare up at various times it 'll it tends
9 Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times .
10 JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news .
11 It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ?
12 Rincewind looked up at grinning men .
13 The cooks were up at 0500 hours , preparing the usual early breakfast for men condemned to hard work .
14 and a fiver , no , he must of put a bet on , borrowed the paper and borrowed the money to put the bet on same day dry cleaning service , you can pick it up at two minutes to midnight madam
15 The pound is down at one dollar fifty and up at two marks forty-five .
16 The pound is up at one dollar fifty-three , and up at two marks forty-nine .
17 The pound is down at one dollar , fifty-four and up at two marks , fifty-two .
18 The pound is up at one dollar , fifty-four and up at two marks , fifty-two .
19 The pound is down at one dollar , eighty-six and up at two marks , eighty-four .
20 The pound is down more than three cents at one dollar , eighty-one , and up at two marks , eighty-four .
21 The pound is up at one dollar , fifty five and up at two marks , fifty three .
22 The pound is up at one dollar , fifty five and up at two marks , fifty three .
23 The pound is up at one dollar , eighty and up at two marks , eighty-four .
24 The pound is down at one dollar , fifty two and up at two marks , forty nine .
25 The pound is up at one dollar seventy-six , and up at two marks eighty-five .
26 The pound is up at one dollar seventy-six , and up at two marks eighty-five .
27 The pound is up at one dollar , eighty and up at two marks , eighty-seven .
28 The pound is up at one dollar , fifty five and up at two marks , forty four .
29 The pound is down nearly three cents at one dollar , seventy-eight , but up at two marks , eighty-seven .
30 The pound is down more than two cents at one dollar , seventy-eight and up at two marks , eighty-seven .
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