Example sentences of "up [prep] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
2 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
3 | It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment . |
4 | He looked by the way from the most of them , playing up with them at the games and did the up there . |
5 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
6 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
7 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
8 | I enjoyed meeting up with you at the JNCC presentation on Monday evening and was impressed in particular by Lord Selbourne 's clear determination ( shared by all the country council chairmen ) to make the JNCC both an effective co-ordinating body between the councils and a strategic ‘ think tank ’ on issues where a UK or an international perspective is essential . |
9 | like a soft telescope , that it looked up along it at the sky |
10 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
11 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
12 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |
13 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
14 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
15 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
16 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
17 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
18 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
19 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
20 | ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace . |
21 | This is strongly implied in John chapter 6 where the Spirit is brought closely into relation with ‘ eating his body and drinking his blood ’ and so being confident of dwelling in Christ , being fed by him , and being raised up by him at the last day ( 6:54,56,63 ) ; just as he is in chapter 3:3–8 in connection with the new birth . |