Example sentences of "[verb] up at an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 2 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 3 | The paper had been relaunched by Maurice Kinn , a successful London agent and promoter who , by turning up at an agreed location on the stroke of noon with £1,000 pounds of borrowed cash in hand , acquired the title and promptly added the New . |
| 4 | Reforming legislation was to be drawn up at an extraordinary PCT congress in 1991 . |
| 5 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 6 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 7 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
| 8 | If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 9 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |
| 10 | Agnes 's plucked eyebrows shot up at an odd angle . |
| 11 | ‘ It might pop up at an awkward moment , ’ he said , which was hardly any better . ’ |