Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] at the " 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 Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline .
8 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 .
9 into the library and go up and sit at the C D ROM terminal .
10 She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I pick them up and look at the envelopes .
15 The entrance has a central panel with twin one way zips so it rolls up and fastens at the top to give easy access .
16 The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure .
17 At last she looked up and smiled at the cat 's owner .
18 ‘ 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 … ’
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