Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 3 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |
| 4 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 5 | I still wake up at night and think about Nelly Woodhouse . |
| 6 | Er next week 's no good I 'm , I 'm really tied up at work , I 've got lots of jobs on erm |
| 7 | The flat was owned by Mick 's grandmother , who regularly turned up at Clash gigs . |
| 8 | She frequently gets up at night , thinking it is daytime , and wanders round the flat . |
| 9 | Lowther , who regularly pops up at advertising awards ceremonies and is more at home in the pony-tailed world of agency ‘ creatives ’ than nervy politicians , penned the Tories ' election broadcast on defence . |
| 10 | Do not male civil servants now sometimes turn up at work wearing ponytails , earrings , jeans or , in the summer , even Lycra shorts ? |
| 11 | Your fish are safely tucked up at home — but then you see the fish of your dreams on some foreign shore . |