Example sentences of "up at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |
| 2 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 3 | The ballet master Balanchine , for one , showed up at a work-out and gazed in wonder . |
| 4 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 5 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 6 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 7 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 8 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 9 | Leland Palmer ignores him , doing what all good rock'n'roll drivers do : pointing out the house where Robin Williams lives , pulling up at a liquor store , and drawing our attention to a woman with an exceptionally large arse riding a bike . |
| 10 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |
| 11 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 12 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 13 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 14 | The adventurers end up at a confluence of shafts , one of which leads to the Bloodheart itself . |
| 15 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 16 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 17 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 18 | A well-known alcoholic who unexpectedly turns up at a cocktail party may inadvertently communicate the fact that his sessions with AA have given him newfound confidence in his self-control . |
| 19 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 20 | Set up at a cost of half a million pounds contributed by CLD and the consortium , this is seen as a long-term project to introduce CLD staff , clients and other interested parties to open systems . |
| 21 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 22 | The barge tied up at a quay . |
| 23 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | We ended up at a bar near the theatre . |
| 25 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 26 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 27 | You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us . |
| 28 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 29 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 30 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |