Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 4 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 5 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 6 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 7 | ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank . |
| 8 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 9 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 11 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 12 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 13 | Then one night Travis arrived , keyed up at the thought of seeing Rosemary again . |
| 14 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 15 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 16 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
| 17 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 18 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |
| 19 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’ |
| 21 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 24 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 25 | This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden , however . |
| 26 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 27 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 28 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 29 | Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him . |
| 30 | Women simply never turned up at the showrooms of one of America 's top designers dressed like that , and with practically no make-up . |