Example sentences of "have [verb] up at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 2 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 3 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |
| 4 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 5 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 6 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 8 | You did n't have to get up at the crack of dawn to work out yardages . |
| 9 | If you take advantage of our superb offer , you wo n't have to get up at the crack of dawn and drag your clubs in and out of the car boot . |
| 10 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 11 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 12 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 13 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 14 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 15 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 16 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 17 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 18 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 19 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 20 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 21 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 22 | ‘ Now we 've tightened up at the back but we are not putting them away up front.do n't seem to be able to put them away up front . |
| 23 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 24 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . |
| 27 | Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . |
| 28 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 29 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 30 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |