Example sentences of "[verb] up at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 2 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 3 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 4 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 5 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In silence we worked , completely indifferent to the freezing cold , as the pile built up at the side of the house . |
| 10 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 15 | Then one night Travis arrived , keyed up at the thought of seeing Rosemary again . |
| 16 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 20 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |
| 21 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 22 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 23 | This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden , however . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 5.17 Yield up At the expiration of the Term : |
| 26 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 27 | Li Yuan sat there , looking up at the image of his father 's father , wondering why he felt so little . |
| 28 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 29 | POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl . |
| 30 | Sir Hector , who will have his own form to fill in as a farmer in Dumfriesshire , says in the letter : ‘ I recognise that many of you will be fed up at the prospect of yet more literature and more form filling . |