Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 2 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 3 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 4 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 5 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 6 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 7 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 8 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 9 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 10 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 11 | ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank . |
| 12 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 13 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 14 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 15 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 16 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 17 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 18 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 19 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 20 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 21 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 22 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 23 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 24 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 25 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 26 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 27 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 28 | Then one night Travis arrived , keyed up at the thought of seeing Rosemary again . |
| 29 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 30 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |