Example sentences of "up [coord] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 2 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 3 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 4 | It was working perfectly back in Manchester , when you had it going up and down at the traffic lights to impress those schoolgirls . ’ |
| 5 | You probably felt it today because you were up and about at the doctor 's . |