Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 2 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 3 | Tonight she was smiling as she stared up at the screen , and Buddie had given her money . |
| 4 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she began to apologise as she turned the lock and pulled back the door , ‘ I should have — ’ Then she stopped , speechless , as she stared up at the tall figure of Robert Sheldrake . |
| 6 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 7 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 8 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 9 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 10 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 11 | ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close . |
| 12 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 13 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 14 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know what , ’ replied Mr. Gordon , looking grave as he stared up at the circling plane . |
| 16 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 17 | Watching as he grinned up at the bus driver , said something and laughed , she felt a hollow ache inside . |