Example sentences of "up [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 2 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 3 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 4 | She ran up to listen at the bedroom door again . |
| 5 | Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves . |
| 6 | The hotels and transport system are simply not up to scratch at the moment . |
| 7 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 8 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 9 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 10 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 11 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 12 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 13 | But such was the power of those two softly spoken words that Ronni found her head jerking up to look at the speaker , barely aware of her brother 's muttered response as he hoisted her cases up on to the jetty . |
| 14 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 15 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 16 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 17 | Follow up began at the start of therapy and was continued for 52 weeks . |
| 18 | But if the guy tries to lay a finger on me , he 'll end up staring at the moon ! ’ |
| 19 | To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump . |
| 20 | Alcohol made these symptoms worse , she noticed , so she gave up drinking at the age of 20 . |
| 21 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 22 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 23 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 24 | ‘ I think if I was to get up to dance at a party , Kate would say , ‘ Oh , do n't dance , Dad — you 're a parent , you 're not supposed to do that sort of thing . ’ |
| 25 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |
| 26 | You get fed up working at the cos you have no day in it . |
| 27 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 28 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |