Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Was n't he the one with whom she 'd grown up at Sleet when his father was head keeper before him ?
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is a great rarity in the countryside to find a Communist who does not have an icon hung up at home .
6 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 .
7 Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ It is important that laws drawn up at community level are seen to be applied in an effective and consistent manner throughout the community . ’
11 Your fish are safely tucked up at home — but then you see the fish of your dreams on some foreign shore .
12 ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … .
13 John is tucked up at home : they want to talk about him .
14 ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home .
15 They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights .
16 I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of
17 STRAPPING LAD : Wigmore is tied up at work , wearing a harness
18 Er next week 's no good I 'm , I 'm really tied up at work , I 've got lots of jobs on erm
19 It permits homes to be locked up at night , although it states : ‘ On no account should children be locked into their bedrooms at night whatever their age and competence . ’
20 Can attitudes and dispositions be summoned up at will ?
21 This place called up at war 's behest
22 A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry .
23 Speed of access may also be worse , as the links between relations are set up at run time and not at data definition time .
24 One of the most interesting new schemes to be put forward is the Jobclubs which are now being set up at Job Centres .
25 A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 .
26 Brought up at home by his mother by means of fingerspelling and signs until he was thirteen , George completed his education in an ordinary school without being able to hear what went on .
27 But that 's just because of the way she knows Nigerian boys are brought up at home .
28 My son was brought up at Court , where she remained while I was on active service . ’
29 ‘ For a Manchu son , ’ Rostov observed , ‘ but mine was brought up at Court . ’
30 The man replied no , but that as he had been born and brought up at Moor of Rannoch , he had every right to call himself Scot .
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