Example sentences of "up [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the government has tightened up rules at the slaughterhouse , and taken action to stop infected meat reaching our food , it 's still JUST possible that diseased meat scraps might reach some meat products . |
| 2 | I had strap many times , I remember once , on my desk , in my desk , they were lift up desks at the time , and it it and it was teacher was a grand fellow , and I got under my desk , underneath my desk , written underneath it , erm God helps them that helps themselves , but God help them that I catch in this desk . |
| 3 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 4 | Shocked granny Vera said last night : ‘ I was washing up cups at the time and he told me he did n't agree with what I was doing . |
| 5 | Brenda washed up mugs at the sink . |
| 6 | Given the claims made for Basquiat 's historical importance in the show 's catalogue , it is surprising that the retrospective has only signed up sites at the Menil Collection in Houston ( 11 March-9 May , 1993 ) , the Des Moines Art Center ( 22 May-15 August ) , and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama ( 18 November-9 January , 1994 ) . |
| 7 | Despite the arduous conditions , the men are committed to getting the job done ; they will clean up sites at the end of each shift to give the incoming team a flying start , and shifts often work on into changeover and maintenance time . |
| 8 | They have lured or chased more than 70 species of vertebrates around racetracks in the Kenyan desert , up treadmills at the field station , and over runways of force plates in Milan , all in the interests of learning , as it were , how many kilometres each model gets per litre . |
| 9 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 10 | He had laid newspaper in front of the range and was putting up blackouts at the windows so that , but for the glow of embers in the fire , there was almost total darkness . |
| 11 | The Bus company delivers and picks up children at the School every day . |
| 12 | CARNMONEY will be coming up roses at the weekend as the local Presbyterian Church hosts one of the biggest events in its social calendar . |
| 13 | Sticking up toads at the top of my gran 's cellar steps |
| 14 | It is , of course , open to the occupier to regulate the right to possession of lost property by contract with the entrant ; it remains to be seen whether merely putting up notices at the entrance declaring that lost property is to vest in the occupier will be an effective manifestation of the intent to control required by Parker 's case . |