Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] up at " in BNC.

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1 I normally throw up at the mere mention of footy management , but Soccer Rivals is darn good .
2 All when it started , and off I went , I never looked back , I never looked up at all .
3 True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself .
4 The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country .
5 I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning !
6 She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter .
7 She suddenly smiled up at him .
8 When she just looked up at him he cupped her face in his hand .
9 She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water .
10 ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she quickly woke up at his reminder .
11 As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers .
12 But then again , have you ever woken up at two in the morning covered in sweat , with the absolute conviction that your time on the planet is about to run out ?
13 She frequently gets up at night , thinking it is daytime , and wanders round the flat .
14 Lowther , who regularly pops up at advertising awards ceremonies and is more at home in the pony-tailed world of agency ‘ creatives ’ than nervy politicians , penned the Tories ' election broadcast on defence .
15 The flat was owned by Mick 's grandmother , who regularly turned up at Clash gigs .
16 Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's .
17 A well-known alcoholic who unexpectedly turns up at a cocktail party may inadvertently communicate the fact that his sessions with AA have given him newfound confidence in his self-control .
18 Who else showed up at the shelter ? ’
19 professed person and they , she , she never turned up at anything
20 Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings .
21 We are not amazed at their motivation and intelligence when they eagerly look up at us , willing us to throw the ball or the stick .
22 In the meantime it 's empty , although they generally turn up at weekends and mess around the place , painting bits and pieces and knocking in nails .
23 He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife .
24 To support himself and his wife , Edith , he daily gets up at 2.30am to work at Richmond bakery .
25 Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask .
26 at eight and he still get up at seven
27 With reference to real , external time , by day 9 of the experiment he was acting like a night-worker , even though he always go up at what he called 0800 and then ate breakfast .
28 He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses .
29 Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door .
30 It always came up at the very worst of times .
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