Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 3 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 4 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 5 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 7 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 8 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 9 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 10 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 11 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 12 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 13 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 14 | POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl . |
| 15 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 16 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 17 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 18 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 19 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 20 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 23 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 24 | Travis glanced up at the lowering sun . |
| 25 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 26 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 27 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 28 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 29 | He was held in a reclining position by his seat-belt , with his head bent back and his mouth open , his eyes staring up at the roof of the car , his right arm hanging straight down , his left snagged on the gear-stick . |
| 30 | Indeed , if you are lucky , on a clear day you might just be able to see the spring bubbling up at the bottom of the pond . |