Example sentences of "up at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 2 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 3 | Widely attacked by homophobes as a threat to family life , the report , in places , makes chilling reading — 12 per cent beaten up at school because of their sexuality ; 10 per cent sacked from work ; 19 per cent admitting to attempted suicide . |
| 4 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 5 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 6 | But ITN man Michael said : ‘ Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved . ’ |
| 7 | The next morning she did not turn up at school . |
| 8 | They were either born rich , or they 're getting their own back on the kids who beat them up at school . ’ |
| 9 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 10 | you know that is the , erm two or three things there , you 're working by yourself in your , your personal preparation prepa preparation are crucial parts , erm , if any of the people were thinking of going to erm , erm , a college , erm , the same sort of thing will arise and I suppose the big difference for if you do n't have lessons then I think I 'm right in saying you do n't necessarily have to go in , I do n't know whether that still applies , erm , you would be expected of course to erm , erm , to turn up at school here , erm , now there are advantages and disadvantages , you may feel that you prefer , knowing on your own what you 're like , you 'll prefer erm some fairly rigid rules , erm , because if there were n't rules you might think you 'd take advantage of us |
| 11 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 12 | Earlier in the month , security was stepped up at border crossings , department stores , railway stations and airports after reports that a terrorist commando was planning raids from a base in Spain . |
| 13 | Mm yes I told Paul that he can bring a lady up at Christmas-time . |
| 14 | It 's alleged that Leyshon and Stokle were lured here and tied up at knife point , before being transported to the hill . |
| 15 | Speed of access may also be worse , as the links between relations are set up at run time and not at data definition time . |
| 16 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 17 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 18 | I 'll tell you : we 're leaving because the little cheat 's time will be up at midnight , son , that 's why . |
| 19 | And as for us , could we ring them up at midnight |
| 20 | The Porsche might be here , but initially what I 'd really like is a new car , and what I 'd like to do is get up at midnight on the first of August , and drive around in my brand new car in the dark . |
| 21 | And when they tied up at Water Gypsy 's permanent moorings , he gathered his few possessions together and left with only the most perfunctory of farewells . |
| 22 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
| 23 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |
| 24 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 25 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 26 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 27 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 28 | You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care . |
| 29 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 30 | A. T. In those days , if you locked somebody up at night , you might be let off duty at three o'clock in the morning . |