Example sentences of "up at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 2 | The Porsche might be here , but initially what I 'd really like is a new car , and what I 'd like to do is get up at midnight on the first of August , and drive around in my brand new car in the dark . |
| 3 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 4 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 5 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 6 | Alexandra , Lyddy and Janet took it in turns to sit up at night with her . |
| 7 | Boroughmuir go to Bridgehaugh without Murry Walker and Derek Stark — on duty with the Scotland seven in Hong Kong — but new British Lion , Peter Wright , lines up at tighthead in a pack which will give Stirling a testing time . |
| 8 | So it was little surprise to me when one evening after a skirmish Mum had blown up at Dad with more than her normal vehemence . |
| 9 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 10 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 11 | ‘ It is common for parents with jobs to leave their children locked up at home with TV Globo as their only companion . ’ |
| 12 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 13 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 14 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 15 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 16 | Brought up at home by his mother by means of fingerspelling and signs until he was thirteen , George completed his education in an ordinary school without being able to hear what went on . |
| 17 | It 's all one to me but time 's getting on and your Auntie 'll want you back early if you 're to be up at crack of dawn in the morning . ’ |
| 18 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 19 | I had to get up at quarter to seven this morning . |
| 20 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 21 | seven quarter to eight , the week days when she needs to get up at quarter to seven |
| 22 | I have to get up at quarter to nine , how do you think I feel ? |
| 23 | Bloody morning I was up at quarter to nine ! |
| 24 | I got up at quarter to twelve I was starving so I had a er er |
| 25 | Had be to be up at quarter to eight . |
| 26 | Well it 's not , if you I 'll pick you up at quarter past four . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na pick you up at quarter past four at the school . |
| 28 | And pick up at quarter past seven at night . |
| 29 | I 'll wake you up at quarter past seven , you can get straight in . |
| 30 | Rang us up at quarter past bloody one this morning ! |