Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 62 | I 'm completely tied up at the hotel . ’ |
| 63 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 64 | I 'm tied up at the hospital the weekend after . ’ |
| 65 | I 'm tied up at the hospital for a while each day , but we could be together most of the time . |
| 66 | Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’ |
| 67 | Here the wheel is mounted horizontally rather than vertically and the spokes are bent up at the ends to form a cup shape . |
| 68 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 69 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 70 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |
| 71 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 72 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 73 | 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 . |
| 74 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 75 | It was now necessary to be able to detect adulterants , and in October 1842 a laboratory ( the ancestor of the later Laboratory of the Government Chemist ) was set up at the excise department headquarters in Broad Street , London , staffed solely by George Phillips . |
| 76 | A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads . |
| 77 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 78 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 79 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 80 | It will be set up at the beginning of 1991 . |
| 81 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 82 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 83 | A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that . |
| 84 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 85 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 86 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 87 | And we 've got ta , wha what we 'll do we 'll get those set up at the sort of the appropriate working temperatures , and working humidity and then we will have to deal with people on an individual basis , if basically , they 're uncomfortable because of draft or whatever it might be . |
| 88 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 89 | The Arch of Trajan in Ancona ( A.D. 113 ) was set up at the harbour entrance astride a causeway . |
| 90 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |