Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the top of the instrument panel are amber oil and fuel low-pressure lights and the left-to-right mechanical flap indicator ( there are five quaintly-named setting , full flap on the left , landing , take-off , climb and up or cruise at the right ) . |
| 2 | She tipped her head up and looked at the sky , biting her lip . |
| 3 | I stood up and looked at the Feldwebel . |
| 4 | He stood up and looked at the following wagon . |
| 5 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 6 | He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder . |
| 7 | Being a good and persuasive talker is a must for this work as you may have to get up and speak at a sales conference or at an agency presentation . |
| 8 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 9 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 10 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 11 | into the library and go up and sit at the C D ROM terminal . |
| 12 | She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life . |
| 13 | For all of these day-rate jobs a time book was kept and wages were reckoned up and paid at the end of the month . |
| 14 | They took the escalator up and settled at a table overlooking the fountain . |
| 15 | Recently up and running at the Minerva factory is a figurine casting machine and at the Eagle factory a new computer-controlled dust-press is in the initial stages of producing earthenware flatware . |
| 16 | I get up and look at the picture real close to see if there 's a baby in the boat , but I ca n't see one . |
| 17 | I pick them up and look at the envelopes . |
| 18 | Julia Verity was looking to start a business by buying a house in Henley , doing it up and selling at a profit . |
| 19 | The entrance has a central panel with twin one way zips so it rolls up and fastens at the top to give easy access . |
| 20 | The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure . |
| 21 | They would therefore be bunched up and arrive at a faster rate . |
| 22 | At last she looked up and smiled at the cat 's owner . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose the humans or whatever knew they would be coming back , and I 've been up and looked at the controls and , you know , it 's probably easier than the truck was , only of course there 's these extra levers for the hydraulics , but that should n't be a problem if there 's enough fuel , which … ’ |