Example sentences of "[verb] up at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 2 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 3 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 4 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 5 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 6 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 7 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 8 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 9 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 10 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 11 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 12 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 13 | Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant ! |
| 14 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 15 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 16 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 17 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 18 | A number of draft agreements drawn up at a meeting of the ACC Ministerial Council , held in Baghdad on Jan. 16-17 , were ratified including accords covering co-operation in industry , oil and gas , health , air transport and tourism . |
| 19 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 20 | The impromptu petition was apparently drawn up at a dinner given by the Society of Dilettanti and sent to the Arts Minister , Mr Richard Luce . |
| 21 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 22 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 23 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 24 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 25 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 26 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 27 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 28 | The ballet master Balanchine , for one , showed up at a work-out and gazed in wonder . |
| 29 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 30 | Leland Palmer ignores him , doing what all good rock'n'roll drivers do : pointing out the house where Robin Williams lives , pulling up at a liquor store , and drawing our attention to a woman with an exceptionally large arse riding a bike . |