Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 2 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 3 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 4 | It had been his mind , not his feet , that had given up at Royston — the mind which foolishly recognized the right of the feet to protest . |
| 5 | Lumberjack had looked up at him , as if for approval , his tongue dangling from his jaws . |
| 6 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 7 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 8 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 9 | Joanna had looked up at him , open adoration in her glowing sapphire eyes . |
| 10 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 11 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 12 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 13 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 14 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 15 | On Monday morning Doone had turned up at Shellerton House with the plank . |
| 16 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 17 | The couple had turned up at Gatwick airport to discover that Mark , who is blind , had packed their bank books instead of passports . |
| 18 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 19 | And if , later that day , 20 newsmen and photographers had turned up at our family bonfire party and witnessed my hysterical attempt to restrain my husband from re-lighting that dud super-rocket ( well , I was n't sure his life insurance was paid up ) , speculation as to the real state of our marriage could doubtless have made dramatic headlines . |
| 20 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 21 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 22 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 23 | Lots of other vehicles had turned up at what was , for humans , great speed . |
| 24 | Mr Gay had turned up at her home in Niddrie Marischal Place after a drinking binge , armed with a baton and determined to continue the fight , it was claimed . |
| 25 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 26 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 27 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 28 | Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform . |
| 29 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 30 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |