Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 2 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 3 | I am fed up at times |
| 4 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 5 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 6 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 7 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 8 | A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures . |
| 9 | A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch . |
| 10 | Schmidt-Richberg reported that , as from the previous day , Army Group E's HQ had been set up at Feistritz , in 5 Corps area on the north side of the Alps , and that a huge force under his command , comprising some 300,000 German and 200,000 Groat troops , most of them armed , was approaching the frontier with Austria from the south . |
| 11 | An incident room has been set up at Milton keynes and police are working on information that Mr Letts managed to tell them before he died . |
| 12 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 13 | The Threarah 's rather good at making himself unpleasant when he 's been woken up at ni-Frith for what he considers a piece of trivial nonsense . |
| 14 | Richardson claims that a number of other things that are coming up at Christie 's this month belong to him : notably a Picasso drawing of Dora Maar and some Braque Christmas cards that Cooper never forwarded . |
| 15 | Speed of access may also be worse , as the links between relations are set up at run time and not at data definition time . |
| 16 | But that 's just because of the way she knows Nigerian boys are brought up at home . |
| 17 | The voucher holders , who also hold a gold card , will be queueing up at Roker Park for their tickets throughout this week . |
| 18 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 19 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 20 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |
| 21 | Such limited logistic installations as were needed west of Singapore were to be built up at Aden , but as few troops as possible would be stationed there . |
| 22 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 23 | FOUR RAILWAYMEN have plumped for a ‘ busmen 's holiday ’ this autumn … by organising a charity rail tour to delightful Poole in Dorset which will be picking up at Wigan North Western . |
| 24 | It permits homes to be locked up at night , although it states : ‘ On no account should children be locked into their bedrooms at night whatever their age and competence . ’ |
| 25 | Can attitudes and dispositions be summoned up at will ? |
| 26 | I think probably Norm 's pyjamas will be coming up at Sotheby 's pretty soon . ’ |
| 27 | Millwall 's Horne , however , will be linking up at Roker Park and could play in Sunday 's crunch game with Leicester if Tony Norman fails to recover from injury . |
| 28 | " Committees for justice " were to be set up at grassroots level in an attempt to alleviate mass unemployment , de-industrialization , the destruction of agriculture and the " humiliation " of east Germans . |
| 29 | This was the second such " traffic-light coalition " ( Ampelcoalition ) to be set up at Land level in Germany , after that in Brandenburg [ see p. 37762 ] . |
| 30 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |