Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some thing like that with er the two kids that were mixed up at their birth . |
| 2 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
| 3 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 4 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 5 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 6 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 7 | Mr Farraday , however , simply looked up at me and said : ‘ I beg your pardon , Stevens ? ’ |
| 8 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 9 | Lumberjack had looked up at him , as if for approval , his tongue dangling from his jaws . |
| 10 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 11 | Most people are amazed at our continuing friendship , but no malice is intended : even her nephew , Crawford , good-humouredly looked up at her recently purchased Venetian chandelier and asked , ‘ Aunt Margaret , is that plastic ? ’ |
| 12 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 13 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 14 | When David said nothing , she waited and then at last looked up at him . |
| 15 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 16 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 17 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 18 | Joanna had looked up at him , open adoration in her glowing sapphire eyes . |
| 19 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 20 | so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you 're a fucking fitter . |
| 21 | said down the corridor he walked in his full uniform , the first morning say and that memory son will always stick ya , cos when I give her over that picture of the twins at Christmas , she , she looked up , she sort of looked up at me , she said I 've got tears in my eyes have n't I , and I looked and like I was choked as well and I , she sort of , I said yeah you are and she said , every time I look at them it brings back those memories the first memories of this little boy |
| 22 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 23 | And we nipped out there , and sort of looked up at him , and it was like , oh hi , we like go , is it safe up there ? |
| 24 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 25 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 26 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 27 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 28 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 29 | With a microphone on a long lead plugged in , the on-board mike is automatically disconnected and the sound can then be picked up at much closer range . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |