Example sentences of "up at [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up at Pusey and it 's had a rear end smash . |
| 2 | Anders looked up at Nina and laughed . |
| 3 | She looked up at Nina and could see that the girl did not recognise her . |
| 4 | Sally , erm well Scotland is very enthusiastic about the birthday appeal and we have five major events planned , erm two in the Glasgow area and two in Edinburgh and one up at Gleneagles and erm in all of these events we 're actually pulling in on our people 's expertise to widen our contacts , so it 's not just the fund members who are running these things . |
| 5 | Warnock is favourite to end up at Sunderland if Malcolm Crosby goes . |
| 6 | In the meantime it 's empty , although they generally turn up at weekends and mess around the place , painting bits and pieces and knocking in nails . |
| 7 | I have had people ring me up at weekends and luckily I 've had the stuff and taken it back . |
| 8 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 9 | But ITN man Michael said : ‘ Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved . ’ |
| 10 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 11 | Widely attacked by homophobes as a threat to family life , the report , in places , makes chilling reading — 12 per cent beaten up at school because of their sexuality ; 10 per cent sacked from work ; 19 per cent admitting to attempted suicide . |
| 12 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 13 | But they often make the mistake of putting them up at crusades when they are only likely to be preaching their simple message to the converted . |
| 14 | ‘ These people have turned up at competitions and disrupted them by throwing things into the water . |
| 15 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 16 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |
| 17 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 18 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 19 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 20 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 21 | I still wake up at night and think about Nelly Woodhouse . |
| 22 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
| 23 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 24 | Some of the asylum seekers are now being put up at bed and breakfast hotels in Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare . |
| 25 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 26 | I 've got some cyclists up at Haystock but years ago I mean when they coming up there , it 's a long road from Doncaster Market an an an deep old ditches |
| 27 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 28 | Last night Swindon Town slipped up at Tranmere and lost three-one . |
| 29 | Our folk up at Dalvaine and that , they spoke the Gaelic long after it was spoken down the glen . |
| 30 | Governor 's serve in a voluntary capacity and are unlikely to turn up at meetings if they are dull events where they are expected to contribute nothing except approval and applause . |