Example sentences of "[verb] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 2 | One point at issue for Yugoslav leaders was the extent to which current developments were damaging the relationship built up at federal level with the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 3 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 4 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |
| 5 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 6 | and it it crops up at various different stages through the play as well , it 's not just erm , you know |
| 7 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
| 8 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 9 | Over a period of time circuit boards and chips creep out of their sockets as different components cool and heat up at different rates . |
| 10 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 11 | Their post-punk scaffolding of taut bass and clenched guitar attack meets up at acute and difficult angles with the chafing , jagged white bars of violin and the half-guttersnipe-half-muezzin wail of vocals . |
| 12 | Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock . |
| 13 | Among his worst crimes are not being married , not turning up at milking times and stealing food . ’ |
| 14 | There are some posh flats going up at neighbouring Royal Quays which will provide building jobs : ‘ It 's Sun City in the middle of Bantustan , ’ a Labour councillor said to me . |
| 15 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 16 | Dr Kavanagh 's monumental landscaping is visible evidence of the tumultuous row which took place around Patrick 's other grave in August when 100 members of Dublin 's literary set turned up at Inniskeen to bury the poet 's widow Katherine . |
| 17 | I had a strange sensation when , on an autumnal Friday afternoon , I turned up at Old Admiralty Building , to have a viva voce on my written evidence to the Falklands Inquiry . |
| 18 | Unfortunately many clinicians use this approach in an incorrect manner and do not follow up at regular intervals . |
| 19 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 20 | Gazing up at gay Shepherd apprehensively , Jack saw that his eyes were nugget hard , as if any kindness or compassion had disappeared years ago . |
| 21 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 22 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 23 | SOUTH TYNEDALE Railway Diesel Day Chance to get all steamed up at unique collection of classic British industrial engines including ‘ Tiny Tim ’ and ‘ The Wickham Trolley ’ . |
| 24 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 25 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 26 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
| 27 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 28 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 29 | My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent . |
| 30 | The present challenge for development communicators is how to counter the negative reactions when ‘ women 's issues ’ are brought up at national or international development discussions . |