Example sentences of "[vb past] up at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A copy came up at auction in New York in June 1989 and was sold for $60,000 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Inevitably Shabba turned up at Music Works , the studio that ruled Jamaica in 1988 –'89,; and there producer Gussie Clarke cut Shabba on some of the best records of the era : the lighthearted ‘ Twice My Age ’ with Krystal , and ‘ Pirate 's Anthem ’ , reuniting him with Cocoa Tea and Home T. |
| 8 | Some time ago I turned up at Broadcasting House to meet someone for lunch . |
| 9 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 10 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 11 | The woman involved in the case turned up at court , but was n't needed to give evidence . |
| 12 | When the last shot had been fired and the troops left for the United States , many GIs turned up at embarkation points with loyal canine friends concealed in their kit bags . |
| 13 | The flat was owned by Mick 's grandmother , who regularly turned up at Clash gigs . |
| 14 | They found only an empty shop when they turned up at Star Cast Promotions , Inner London Crown Court heard . |
| 15 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 16 | I was frantically doing this and I showed up at rehearsal thinking they were going to do all the songs , but we did n't do anything until two or three days later ! |
| 17 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 18 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 19 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 20 | I got up at quarter to twelve I was starving so I had a er er |
| 21 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 22 | She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing . |
| 23 | The Doctor grinned up at Ace and Benny 's grime-streaked faces . |
| 24 | Factions sprang up at court and intrigue , always a dangerous pastime among the Elves , became a way of life for many . |
| 25 | I glanced up at Granny 's picture and for once she seemed to be smiling . |
| 26 | ‘ It is common for parents with jobs to leave their children locked up at home with TV Globo as their only companion . ’ |
| 27 | It was its last run and it finished up at Priory Heath erm was on the Gainsborough route . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , for Third Lanark 's dwindling fans , he sobered up at half-time and duly let in five goals . |
| 29 | Colour notes were added and the final picture worked up at home . |
| 30 | That is , until one of Penfold 's Australian winemakers poled up at Geyser Peak winery in California and realised the price of Chardonnay was so high around the Sonoma Valley he 'd never manage to make a £4.99 class white for our market . |