Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 2 | so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you 're a fucking fitter . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |
| 4 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 5 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 6 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Was n't he the one with whom she 'd grown up at Sleet when his father was head keeper before him ? |
| 9 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 10 | Such limited logistic installations as were needed west of Singapore were to be built up at Aden , but as few troops as possible would be stationed there . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 13 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 14 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 15 | A larger crowd than normal subsequently turned up at Cardiff to see if Gover 's cure had worked , and Griffin sent down 18 blameless overs but failed to take a wicket . |
| 16 | ‘ These people have turned up at competitions and disrupted them by throwing things into the water . |
| 17 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |
| 18 | The couple had turned up at Gatwick airport to discover that Mark , who is blind , had packed their bank books instead of passports . |
| 19 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On Monday morning Doone had turned up at Shellerton House with the plank . |
| 22 | It is a great rarity in the countryside to find a Communist who does not have an icon hung up at home . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I am fed up at times |
| 25 | ‘ PC Allen ’ is steamed up at Page 's Park shed in readiness for its return to passenger service on June 20 . |
| 26 | Prince Albert , Queen Victoria 's consort , helped this trend by designing his own Balmoral tartan and having it made up at Walkerburn . |
| 27 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 28 | On 29 August 1745 the younger Stuart , still only 20 , had slipped secretly away and on 24 October 1745 , while he was on the road , a Treaty of Alliance was drawn up at Fontainebleau , under which the French king promised ‘ James III ’ , as he was styled , to help him against their ‘ common enemy ’ , described , for diplomatic reasons , not as king of England but as Elector of Hanover . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | THE SNORTING TRAIN sent steam swirling through the buzzing crowd of people as they swarmed from the platform into the open wagons drawn up at Leicester station . |