Example sentences of "up at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 2 | It may be difficult to open up at first , but when you do you 'll be on the way to overcoming the traumas of the past and rebuilding your self-esteem . |
| 3 | As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’ |
| 4 | As I approach Jamie 's house , I glance up at the-first floor . |
| 5 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 6 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 7 | I caught him up at last . |
| 8 | ‘ But why ? ’ asked the Ambassador when he looked up at last . |
| 9 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 10 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 11 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 12 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 13 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 14 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 15 | The blond man looked up at last — and his eyes latched on to Cardiff . |
| 16 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 17 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 18 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 19 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 20 | ‘ This is profanation , ’ he said harshly , looking up at last . |