Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 2 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 3 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 4 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |
| 5 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 6 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 7 | Special post boxes will be set up at each walk to receive the postcards . |
| 8 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 9 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 10 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 11 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 12 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 13 | ‘ At my age it 's not as though I 'm going to be snapped up at any other club . |