Example sentences of "up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 2 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 3 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
| 4 | Who else showed up at the shelter ? ’ |
| 5 | Some lifts have rails that can fold up at the bottom if space is tight or if a doorway is going to obstructed . |
| 6 | Our expensive , good-quality tunics were well cut and belted , while our ‘ guard ’ style cap , set up at the front to emulate the officer class , made us different . |
| 7 | ‘ I adore you , your body drives me wild with desire , I live for the light in your eyes , my whole being lights up at the thought of you . |
| 8 | ‘ But they will never take you , Don — I will hide you here — no , I will hide you up at the old shieling hut — or we could run away west into Rannoch — ‘ There are forts everywhere . |
| 9 | He looked up at the horses , shading his eyes against a sting of sun from the west . |
| 10 | Up at the old house , Donald kicked the kettle in a spasm of impatience and said angrily to Jean , ‘ Why are you putting me in a vice ? |
| 11 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 12 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 13 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 14 | And if you 're tiling right round a room , inaccurate levels will mean your rows do n't match up at the start and finish point . |
| 15 | Hundreds of people are standing around , gazing up at the indicator and waiting for the platform of their train to be flashed up . |
| 16 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 17 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 18 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 19 | The judge was summing up at the end of the Old Bailey trial of PC Peter Anderson , 41 , based at Surbiton police station in Surrey , who is accused of raping the woman on 4 April last year . |
| 20 | Choke up at The Price Of Fame : ‘ I give ‘ em everything and they stick a knife in my back . ’ |
| 21 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 22 | A birdie two at the 32nd gave Rafferty the lead and he went two up at the 34th where Lyle , disturbed mid-swing by the clicking of a camera , pulled his tee shot into the trees on the left . |
| 23 | The so-called big men up at the top do n't care about us . |
| 24 | See , up at the likes of Paisley 's there , [ name of policeman ] was desperate , he did n't read . |
| 25 | He looked up at the apple tree and replied , ‘ It makes no fucking difference , Piper , where you dig it . |
| 26 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 27 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 28 | I glanced up at the sky , ‘ It 's going to be light pretty soon . ’ |
| 29 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 30 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |