Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 2 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 3 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 4 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 5 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 6 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |
| 7 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 8 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 9 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 10 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 11 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 12 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 13 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 14 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 15 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 16 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 17 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 18 | ‘ You know that the twins always seem to get up at the crack of dawn . |
| 19 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 20 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 21 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 22 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 23 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 24 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 25 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 26 | You did n't have to get up at the crack of dawn to work out yardages . |
| 27 | If you take advantage of our superb offer , you wo n't have to get up at the crack of dawn and drag your clubs in and out of the car boot . |
| 28 | The singer failed to turn up at the gig at London 's Finsbury Park after he faced a barrage of missiles thrown by fans during Saturday 's performance . |
| 29 | A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son . |
| 30 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |