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

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1 She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking
2 It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again .
3 I mean they pick somebody up at Goldhill Cottages and that 's about all I do n't know .
4 I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight .
5 Jones , reeling from a £20,000 fine and suspended six-month ban imposed by the FA for his part in a video nasty about soccer dirty tricks , has to pick himself up at Middlesbrough .
6 No he 's picking you up at night
7 I 've made a reservation on the Pan Am flight in the morning , and there 'll be a limo to pick you up at Kennedy .
8 They buried her up at St Saviour 's , in the far corner of the graveyard where the ground slopes away from the redstone church .
9 We have to pick him up at midday . ’
10 Then Kurt has to shell out a considerable amount of money , maybe $25,000 , for the first class plane seats so that Courtney can fly home lying down and a specially appointed ambulance to pick her up at LA airport .
11 But Chapman accepted that the short , stocky James was one of football 's great characters , an outstanding individualist who liked to do things his own way , like living it up at West End night clubs until the early hours .
12 Turn on the radio and on every station The Eagles are ‘ Living it up at de Hotel California ’ .
13 ‘ Only you 're on the wrong bus , ’ he continued , ‘ you want the 800 Dalesbus — you 'll have to pick it up at Ilkley . ’
14 ‘ Supposed to pick us up at lunchtime and never turned up .
15 And as for us , could we ring them up at midnight
16 Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’
17 But it still keeps my up at night . ’
18 A. T. In those days , if you locked somebody up at night , you might be let off duty at three o'clock in the morning .
19 I have had people ring me up at weekends and luckily I 've had the stuff and taken it back .
20 With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation .
21 Rang us up at quarter past bloody one this morning !
22 When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable .
23 their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ?
24 When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless .
25 Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics
26 I doll myself up at dusk .
27 Oh I 'll just make it up at lunch .
28 The Campbell yanked a Mills bomb from a camouflaged pocket and flung it up at Cornelius .
29 Oh he 'd pick me up at night , I see
30 So I think I 'll get them up at Asda , get the Phillips one 's I think .
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