Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 2 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 3 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 4 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 5 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 6 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 7 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 8 | I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’ |
| 9 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
| 10 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 11 | I looked up at the building . |
| 12 | I looked up at the nurse , surprised by my name on a stranger 's lips . |
| 13 | I looked up at the sun . |
| 14 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 15 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 16 | I looked up at the clock . |
| 17 | As I thought these things , I looked up at the window . |
| 18 | I looked up at the mountain . |
| 19 | I looked up at the jumble of rooftops with their abundance of chimney-pots , the florid iron bal-conies at the dormer windows . |
| 20 | We paralleled Crow Road for a bit , and stopped , waiting for signals , outside Jordanhill station ; I looked up at the rear of the flats which fronted Crow Road , trying to work out which was Janice Rae 's . |
| 21 | I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me . |
| 22 | I queued up at the travel centre to pick up my copy . |
| 23 | I sat up at the counter and ordered Scotch on the rocks . |
| 24 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 25 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 26 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 27 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 28 | She squinted up at the sun . |
| 29 | The family 's maid has told how a dishevelled Spiro stopped her working when she turned up at the home the day after the killings . |
| 30 | She turned up at the Café Dôme one night , her beautiful dress torn to shreds . |