Example sentences of "[verb] up at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told they know how to honour their dead in the Highland regiments but the next time I go to Edinburgh I will gaze up at Dad Tam , and see both of my sons in that solid likeness ( despite the Kitchener moustache ) . |
| 2 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 3 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 4 | She , she gets all wound up at home and then comes to work and where there 's people to sound off about , everything under the er the sun . |
| 5 | Was n't he the one with whom she 'd grown up at Sleet when his father was head keeper before him ? |
| 6 | The gundogs were primarily for picking up at pheasant shoots and for work on my own shoot , but one of them , a Springer spaniel , was also used for hunting out rough-lying rabbits and also for retrieving shot rabbits from difficult situations . |
| 7 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 8 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 9 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 10 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 11 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the company 's vice president of sales , Charles DeVita , has turned up at Mountain View , California-based Consilium Inc as vice president , worldwide sales and service . |
| 13 | It is a great rarity in the countryside to find a Communist who does not have an icon hung up at home . |
| 14 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 15 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 16 | But prison officers say their procedures to pick up at risk prisoners were followed . |
| 17 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |
| 18 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 19 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 20 | A copy came up at auction in New York in June 1989 and was sold for $60,000 . |
| 21 | Unix-on-Mac house Tenon Intersystems Inc will show up at Unix Expo with its Mach Ten running on an Apple Powerbook . |
| 22 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 23 | However , Derek was actually seen at his best when playing in the ‘ sweeper 's ’ role , which grew to prominence while he was at the Palace , or when lining up at centre-half alongside Ian Evans in Palace 's run to the FA Cup semi-final in 1976 . |
| 24 | Waking up at night I ca n't actually differentiate between the two very easily . |
| 25 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 26 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
| 27 | Here is an actual contract for ‘ taking the harvest ’ : it was drawn up at Grove Farm by old George Rope some time during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | On the environmental side it will be vital to ensure that the standards , rules and codes of practice drawn up at Community level are appropriate to all our circumstances and are capable of being enforced economically and efficiently . |
| 29 | ‘ It is important that laws drawn up at community level are seen to be applied in an effective and consistent manner throughout the community . ’ |
| 30 | But ITN man Michael said : ‘ Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved . ’ |