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

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1 After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established .
2 Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this .
3 Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization .
4 However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities .
5 The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other .
6 The bears line up at one end of the room .
7 With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait .
8 She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character .
9 Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations .
10 ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’
11 and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal .
12 Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham .
13 A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield .
14 A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield .
15 SOUTH TYNEDALE Railway Diesel Day Chance to get all steamed up at unique collection of classic British industrial engines including ‘ Tiny Tim ’ and ‘ The Wickham Trolley ’ .
16 JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news .
17 The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit .
18 ‘ I hope we can all meet up at some time in the future , ’ says Tyler , ‘ and have a tap-dance . ’
19 ‘ I do n't remember it coming up at that meeting of Senate , ’ says Philip .
20 It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path .
21 But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ .
22 And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext .
23 The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 .
24 He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney .
25 Go up at all costs to Lescun , three steep miles from the main road in the mountains to the right , at a height of 3,000 feet .
26 They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach .
27 When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future .
28 The extension 's roof sloped up at forty-five degrees to within about four feet of the roof proper .
29 Numerous new bolt routes have recently been put up at all grades in the Dundee quarries which is acceptable within the policy , while the bolts on Lower Cave Creg , Dunkeld , are clearly not .
30 Guy 's mouth kicked up at one corner in a wryly amused smile .
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