Example sentences of "[to-vb] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 2 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 3 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 4 | The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane . |
| 5 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 6 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 7 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 8 | Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost . |
| 9 | ‘ Would n't call that huge , ’ said Gedanken trying to squint up at the Sun . |
| 10 | Charlton had the decency to colour up at the bare-faced plugs for his product that the worthy representing British Gas had been able to lever into his opening peroration . |
| 11 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 12 | To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building . |
| 13 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 14 | His face was severely troubled and he went out into the street to look up at the tree which overhung his house . |
| 15 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 16 | She had to look up at the glittering green eyes ; she could n't help herself ; she had to watch as Fincara stooped down before her , white hands on knees , and sang — |
| 17 | to learn it : to look up at the brightness |
| 18 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 19 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 20 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 21 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 22 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 23 | Is the , is the projected grant likely to go up at the same rate as in , as in nine ninety four , ninety five ? |
| 24 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 25 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 26 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |
| 27 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 28 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |
| 29 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 30 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |