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

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1 A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps .
2 And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged .
3 The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 .
4 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 .
5 ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . )
6 The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle .
7 Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading .
8 The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane .
9 Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made .
10 The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged .
11 Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 .
12 It was accordingly wound up at the end of May .
13 Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed .
14 As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann .
15 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 .
16 I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism .
17 The words of Chris Bott , anarchist or , more politely , ‘ libertarian left ’ , as laid out in giant 36-point type and printed in lurid blue on a red background on the cover of Ink , one of the crop of underground papers that sprang up at the end of the 1960s .
18 Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] .
19 Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 .
20 A computerised machine was implanted in his chest last November but Mrs Priestley said it packed up at the end of last month and he was taken into hospital .
21 We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars .
22 ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close .
23 They pulled up at the end of the gallop .
24 Laidlaw drove past it and pulled up at the end of the dirt road .
25 My brother is coming up at the end of the week to take them back with him , and he 'll tell them something then . ’
26 But there 's an International Business Fair coming up at the end of this month . ’
27 We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme .
28 In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade .
29 John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age .
30 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
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