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

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1 Or recognising that up there the air might be too rarefied and you do n't want to go up at all .
2 Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization .
3 166 breeds from all over the country are expected to line up at this year 's event , competing to become the Supreme Champion .
4 As one manager expressed it : ‘ Managers appear to turn up at 9.00 and leave at 4.30 , but they take their problems home with them . ’
5 The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant …
6 That 's where the real problem lies , if you could have had the P A , if you could have gone into the cupboard and got it , even though we 'd turned up at ten past six ,
7 Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order .
8 All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all .
9 Lewis , meanwhile , intends to turn up at each of Bowe 's fights to shame the IBF and WBA champion into fighting him .
10 I was going to get up at 5.30 anyway so it did n't make all that much difference .
11 Asthma tends to flare up at various times it 'll it tends
12 The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power-brokers gets to meet up at these events .
13 She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins .
14 Because say Gail and Keith go got woken up at three o'clock in the morning
15 It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment .
16 Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture .
17 Marcus could have turned up at any moment .
18 I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them
19 The poor chap 's having to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning , this is being paid for it .
20 I 'm gon na have to get up at four .
21 Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work .
22 So I said , well , we 'll have to start packing up at half past four because we got cement mixer to clean and all the
23 Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time .
24 He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers .
25 ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel .
26 She had been tired after her early shift , which had necessitated getting up at six ; perhaps that was why she had slipped so easily into that state of contented , almost hypnotic languor .
27 ‘ Chefs do n't want to get up at six in the morning to go to Docklands , ’ Mr Moran says .
28 They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted …
29 I 'll have to catch the 7 a.m. train to Nottingham , which means getting up at 5 a.m. to put the slap on and climb into the overalls .
30 We used to have to get up at six and scrub out the still-room every morning .
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