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 . |