Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 2 | Pick me up at two forty-five . |
| 3 | ‘ Pick me up at eleven , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Pick me up at half past four . |
| 5 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 6 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 7 | I caught him up at last . |
| 8 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said . |
| 10 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 11 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 12 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 13 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 14 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 15 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 16 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 17 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 18 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 19 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 20 | No , you said would I bring it up at this meeting . |
| 21 | you 're turning sourpuss as well , ho , ho , ho , no I suppose not , she 's coming to pick it up at four thirty , that 's when I get my money which is very nice . |
| 22 | ‘ Pick you up at seven . ’ |
| 23 | Well yeah pick you up at twenty past nine |
| 24 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He would make tremendous efforts , like running to catch the last train back when I was two months old , and waking me up at 11 o'clock at night to spend time with me . |
| 26 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 27 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 28 | And one of the things they 're going to do is to centralize the switchboard that it 'll , you wo n't actually ring me up at all , you might ring the , the telephone number for Newark but it 'll be answered at headquarters and they 'll put you through . |
| 29 | Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times . |
| 30 | Dad was gon na ring you up at eight o'clock before you went to school and say |