Example sentences of "up at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 2 | Is he not up at the like . |
| 3 | Fathers looked up at the uniform ceiling of grey cloud and decided to put on tweed caps instead of Panamas . |
| 4 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 5 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 6 | I normally throw up at the mere mention of footy management , but Soccer Rivals is darn good . |
| 7 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 8 | She flashed green eyes , glaring up at the vague outline of his face with annoyance . |
| 9 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 10 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 11 | He studied him a moment , intently , almost fiercely , then pointed up at the overhead camera . |
| 12 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
| 13 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 14 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm leaving a picture of my mother up at the front door with a notice saying this woman is not allowed into the theatre , ’ says Margi . |
| 16 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 17 | She looked up at the flawless blue sky , dotted with a few drifting white clouds . |
| 18 | To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building . |
| 19 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 20 | He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised . |
| 21 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 22 | Stephen simply stood , hands on hips , looking up at the offending beam . |
| 23 | Lucie lay back on his bed and stared up at the cobwebbed planks under the thatch . |
| 24 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 25 | Pull up at the sweep-through drive and you enter a sophisticated property of airy , high arch ceilings and chandeliers , carefully carved mouldings of gold and classic furnishings of style . |
| 26 | Make sure that the ladder you are working on is secure and put up at the correct angle ( 1 metre out for every 4 metres up the wall ) . |
| 27 | Julia lay against the hard , red velvet back of the bench , staring up at the painted walls around her . |
| 28 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
| 29 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 30 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |