Example sentences of "up at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 2 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 3 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 4 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 5 | The course content was broadly along the lines first recommended in 1981 by the Working Party on Minority Community Languages in School , set up at the Second Assembly of the National Congress on Languages in Education : the fourth volume of NCLE Papers and Reports available from the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and research ( 1984 ) reproduces the proposal in full . |
| 6 | So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment . |
| 7 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 8 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 9 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 10 | There is a particularly cold-blooded tycoon lurking in Coopers & Lybrand 's head office — Ian Brummer , a ‘ ruthless ’ computer manager , cleaned up at the first City Monopoly Challenge , virtually bankrupting everyone else in sight . |
| 11 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 12 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 13 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 14 | Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there . |
| 15 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 16 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 17 | erm , you do n't give up at the first little hurdle . |
| 18 | City : O & Y pays up at the last minute |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 20 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 21 | His trousers bunch round his ankles again , then catch round his boots and disappear over the edge of the chimney , kicking up at the last moment and hitting the grating ; the branch slips and the grating slams down . |
| 22 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 23 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 24 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 25 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 27 | Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford . |
| 28 | know is really , and it 's in the file , if they do pay up at the last we 've just got ta get |
| 29 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 30 | A set of principles of ‘ functional ’ town planning was established , enshrined in a document drawn up at the fourth congress held aboard a liner cruising between Marseilles and Athens : hence the Athens Charter , 1933 . |