Example sentences of "[vb past] up at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 2 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 3 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 4 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 5 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 6 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 7 | Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant ! |
| 8 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 9 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 10 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 11 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 12 | The Mad one turned up at a recent New York gig of fabulous , trendy , baggy-type band with organ , THE CHARLATANS ( UK ) . |
| 13 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 14 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 15 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 16 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 17 | The ballet master Balanchine , for one , showed up at a work-out and gazed in wonder . |
| 18 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 19 | He also stocked up at a local health shop with various things he could nibble discreetly en route . |
| 20 | The barge tied up at a quay . |
| 21 | On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water . |
| 22 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 23 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 24 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 25 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 26 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 27 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 28 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 29 | She failed her eleven-plus and ended up at a local secondary modern school , which turned out to be a blessing in disguise . |
| 30 | She was out with a group of girls , you were with your friends , and you all had a happy evening together and ended up at a disco . |