Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |
| 2 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 3 | When Loz finds the solutions to the problems that clearly weigh heavy on his shoulders — and a new hairdresser — the Kingmaker campaign could wind up at Wembley . |
| 4 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 5 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 6 | Radioactive waste will pile up at nuclear power stations , defence establishments and the Sellafield reprocessing plant for another twenty years because of delays in building an underground repository , according to the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee , which advises the Department of the Environment . |
| 7 | What may happen is that the returning reflected stress waves repeatedly meet the outgoing ones at some critical or unlucky point and thus the stress may pile up at this point until fracture occurs . |
| 8 | There was no sign of her in the street but a taxi might draw up at any moment . |
| 9 | This limit means that primordial black holes could make up at most one millionth of the matter in the universe . |
| 10 | They had rather hoped that political questions would take up at least as much time as trade problems during this week 's visit to Japan . |
| 11 | These memories can pop up at any time and transform even the most mundane occasion into something special . |
| 12 | As with all hill climbing , a BM may end up at a local minimum . |
| 13 | People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh , fit and ready to toil . |
| 14 | Any problems with the wording of the draft questionnaire should show up at this stage and can be corrected before the real investigation starts . |
| 15 | Nicholle and Janine 's body-fat ratios have been measured at up to 31.7 per cent , but women of their age should shape up at between 20-22 per cent . |
| 16 | In our nearest village , eight miles away , the shopkeepers turned in their beds and slept on : the first wisp of turf smoke might curl up at nine , the first tractor rattle in at half-past . |
| 17 | it 's a kind of thing that I think could be put and take and people could pick up at the box office |
| 18 | Within 15 minutes or so , Alan Fordham would turn up at the commentary box , ready to resume discussion on the latest of the batch of modern drama texts through which he was picking his way . |
| 19 | He then said that about three quarters of all international passengers will end up at King 's Cross . |
| 20 | But top insurers said terrorism was a political problem not a commercial one , so the Government should pick up at least part of the tab for future claims . |
| 21 | It 's got to the point where manager Lennie Lawrence must wake up at times wondering which big game is next . |
| 22 | Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this . |
| 23 | In fact , prices can go up at any time , not necessarily in April . |
| 24 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) It is a well-known custom that as soon as the siren of a fire-engine is heard , other vehicles should pull up at the side of the road , in order to afford free passage . |
| 26 | As she prepared to leave for one of her foraging expeditions , Sycorax would poke up at her and hiss , ‘ Do n't let them see what you pick ! |
| 27 | Like every other band , The Smiths used to queue up at Factory , eagerly awaiting their videos off the Haçienda video production line . |
| 28 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 29 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 30 | ‘ If those two English lads from Northallerton will turn up at the pics ? |