Example sentences of "they [vb past] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 2 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 3 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 4 | ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close . |
| 5 | They pulled up at the end of the gallop . |
| 6 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
| 7 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 8 | They worked well together and soon they tied up at the town quay . |
| 9 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 10 | Gloucester play in the Pilkington Cup on saturday … they warmed up at the weekend with a twenty six to ten win over Pontypridd |
| 11 | ‘ Most people finding that the leather handbag they picked up at the school fete was , in fact , plastic would shrug it off if the proceeds of the sale were going to a good cause , ’ said Mr Richards . |
| 12 | They sat up at the front : Uncle Harry at one end ( when he was n't away at sea ) and Aunt Ann at the other , with her cousins Tristram , Jill , Nathan and Matthew in between . |