Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises .
2 I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end .
3 Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work .
4 ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’
5 She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico .
6 Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence .
7 An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale .
8 A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds .
9 I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other .
10 She seemed to light up at the idea .
11 Whichever way you looked at it , that name seemed to come up at every turn : Rose Hilaire mother of Steve , employer of Lily , and niece of a body under Coffin 's floorboards .
12 Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand .
13 WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION
14 In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike .
15 He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night .
16 Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come .
17 This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected .
18 They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars .
19 ‘ You know that the twins always seem to get up at the crack of dawn .
20 It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone .
21 Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police .
22 Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable .
23 Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped .
24 Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed .
25 You did n't have to get up at the crack of dawn to work out yardages .
26 If you take advantage of our superb offer , you wo n't have to get up at the crack of dawn and drag your clubs in and out of the car boot .
27 A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son .
28 The singer failed to turn up at the gig at London 's Finsbury Park after he faced a barrage of missiles thrown by fans during Saturday 's performance .
29 ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared .
30 He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling .
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