Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
2 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
3 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
4 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
5 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
6 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
7 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
8 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
9 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
10 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
11 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
12 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
13 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
14 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
15 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
16 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
17 | They said no more then , for the coach had pulled up at the main door . |
18 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
19 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
20 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
21 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
22 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
23 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |