Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
| 2 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 3 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 4 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 7 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 8 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 9 | I have n't grown up at all , she thought hopelessly . |
| 10 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 11 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 12 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |
| 13 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 14 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 15 | You 've turned up at eight thirty one , you 've missed the training session , because if you turn up late for training sessions , you 'll end up turning up late out there . |
| 16 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 17 | Do n't tell me something 's turned up at this stage to stop Cris getting away ? ’ |
| 18 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 19 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 20 | That 's where the real problem lies , if you could have had the P A , if you could have gone into the cupboard and got it , even though we 'd turned up at ten past six , |
| 21 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 22 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 23 | Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform . |
| 24 | Ten years ago , in the attempt to prove that the mammalian brain naturally contained a substance with opiate-like activity , Kosterlitz 's colleague John Hughes regularly got up at 4 o'clock in the morning , collected pigs ' brains from a slaughterhouse and pulverised them with a steel rod in the basement toilet of a laboratory in Aberdeen . |
| 25 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 26 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 27 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 28 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 29 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 30 | Such a fleeting allegiance was common amongst Surrealism 's female associates : Frida Kahlo never joined up at all , and she spoke for many of the women who where connected with Surrealism when she declared that Breton and his circle ‘ thought I was a Surrealist , but I was n't . |