Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a moment " in BNC.

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1 She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared .
2 Léonie got up after a moment and went out to get the salad .
3 He glanced up for a moment towards the senator and Jacques Devraux .
4 ‘ In this game you need people like Simon who can be called up at a moment 's notice . ’
5 Ally McCoist 's winning goal spectacular enough , but coming up in a moment , exclusive pictures of Duncan Shearer 's equally magnificent strike for Aberdeen against Dundee United .
6 The first one coming up in a moment is the London to Sydney car marathon , we 're going on the roads of India and Australia .
7 It 's certainly a , a day of reflection an and great appreciation on a part of all of us , the reason we 're here er for me , personally , I need to back up for a moment perhaps .
8 Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged .
9 Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out .
10 His eyes lit up for a moment at that .
11 why do n't you shut up for a moment
12 No I , well I 'm gon na , yeah okay , but I mean she , well you 're gon na be , you 'll get up in a moment now wo n't you ?
13 Can I come up for a moment ? ’
14 I was really choked up for a moment .
15 When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’
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