Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] up at [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time . |
2 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
3 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
4 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
5 | There are some first-class people in charge , men such as Peter Browne and Laurie Kelly , and you find ex-TVH men popping up at stadia all over the world to give you a shout . |
6 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
7 | A noticeboard bearing a multitude of papers half pinned over each other , or with yellowing papers curling up at corners , is not an attractive or useful sight . |