Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I caught him up at last .
2 He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him
3 They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there
4 He rang me up at nine o'clock .
5 I hardly roughed him up at all .
6 getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes
7 Picked him up at Imperial College .
8 He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five .
9 they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house
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