Example sentences of "[vb past] up at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 2 | A copy came up at auction in New York in June 1989 and was sold for $60,000 . |
| 3 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 4 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 5 | I got up at quarter to twelve I was starving so I had a er er |
| 6 | ‘ It is common for parents with jobs to leave their children locked up at home with TV Globo as their only companion . ’ |
| 7 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 8 | She leaned forward on her elbows and looked up at Briant with an expression of almost ludicrous earnestness on her face . |
| 9 | Marianne looked up at Dane from beneath her ludicrously long eyelashes . |
| 10 | When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) . |