Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 2 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 3 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 4 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 5 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 6 | ‘ He would make tremendous efforts , like running to catch the last train back when I was two months old , and waking me up at 11 o'clock at night to spend time with me . |
| 7 | How do you stop a cockerel from waking you up at five o'clock on a Monday morning ? |
| 8 | ‘ If I had something to say I said it , ’ he recalls , ‘ but I did n't want you lot ringing me up at three o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 9 | But if it 's something , you know , more serious than then the the client should be aware from you , that they should be ringing you up at this stage . |