Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 3 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 4 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They said no more then , for the coach had pulled up at the main door . |
| 7 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 8 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 9 | SCIENCE lessons have perked up at a junior school since youngsters discovered the secrets of a special science activities box . |