Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electrodes for that are only linked up at intervals , of course , since they have to be directly attached to his scalp . |
| 2 | How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ? |
| 3 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 5 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 6 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'll have it in a minute I 'm all glued up at the moment . |
| 8 | Er next week 's no good I 'm , I 'm really tied up at work , I 've got lots of jobs on erm |
| 9 | I 'm completely tied up at the hotel . ’ |
| 10 | Marriages are increasingly breaking up at or soon after this point . |
| 11 | But they were soon rounded up at nearby Maidenhead railway station . |
| 12 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 13 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 14 | The Irish road racing season is finally wrapped up at Killalane , Co Dublin tomorrow and the appearance of Phillip McCallen should ensure a record crowd . |
| 15 | NGF is normally taken up at nerve terminals and transported along the nerve fibres to the cell body , where it presumably regulates the amount of peptide . |
| 16 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , Papa is still living up at Wood Lane . |
| 18 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’ |
| 20 | Your fish are safely tucked up at home — but then you see the fish of your dreams on some foreign shore . |
| 21 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |
| 22 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 23 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 26 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 27 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |