Example sentences of "up at an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It might pop up at an awkward moment , ’ he said , which was hardly any better . ’
2 There are as many people as turn up at an average Sunderland boilermakers branch meeting .
3 Agnes 's plucked eyebrows shot up at an odd angle .
4 On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age .
5 Reforming legislation was to be drawn up at an extraordinary PCT congress in 1991 .
6 If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) .
7 The paper had been relaunched by Maurice Kinn , a successful London agent and promoter who , by turning up at an agreed location on the stroke of noon with £1,000 pounds of borrowed cash in hand , acquired the title and promptly added the New .
8 The principle horrified hi-fi buffs when it was first announced , because it chopped the sound wave up at an ultrasonic rate and described each ‘ slice ’ as a binary number .
9 At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service .
10 On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment .
11 I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept .
12 Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough .
13 Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate .
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