Example sentences of "[to-vb] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 2 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 3 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 4 | The narrowness of Foxton was at least one of the arguments to come up at the end of the century in favour of the inclined plane . |
| 5 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 6 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 7 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Would n't call that huge , ’ said Gedanken trying to squint up at the Sun . |
| 9 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 10 | His face was severely troubled and he went out into the street to look up at the tree which overhung his house . |
| 11 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 12 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 13 | to learn it : to look up at the brightness |
| 14 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 15 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 16 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 17 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 18 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |
| 19 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |
| 21 | He used to live up at The Dial . |
| 22 | A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son . |
| 23 | He had n't rung to make an appointment , better to turn up at the door and press the bell like any other cheapskate private detective . |
| 24 | She had expected Fernando to turn up at the airport with his arms full of red roses and promises . |
| 25 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 26 | The singer failed to turn up at the gig at London 's Finsbury Park after he faced a barrage of missiles thrown by fans during Saturday 's performance . |
| 27 | Whether or not this constitutional tug of war is resolved by the proposed referendum on presidential powers in April — indeed whether anyone will get around to formulating questions for it , or persuading the battle scarred citizenry to turn up at the ballot box — are still matters of obsessive speculation . |
| 28 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 29 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 30 | WAC 's most elaborate ruse to date was to turn up at the Republican convention in Houston and install batch after batch of 20-by-60-foot high feminist slogans ( designed by Anderson , Kruger et al ) which greeted Bush 's nearest and dearest as they exited from the convention . |