Example sentences of "up at this " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said .
2 At home most were never up at this hour , and breakfast was either a meal only to be enjoyed at the weekend or eaten hastily prior to catching the bus to work .
3 Ari looked up at this prompt .
4 Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham .
5 Of course , she was not normally up at this time of the morning .
6 It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins .
7 Lots of pupils give up at this first hurdle .
8 And a family of nephews — ’ another hesitation — ‘ and a niece — ’ Noreen looked up at this , and almost defied the Bishop with her stare , ‘ — that do him much credit in this world and I trust will be of some satisfaction to his account in the next .
9 An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night .
10 Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time .
11 Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights .
12 I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point .
13 While up at this end of the guitar , I must mention the headstock shape .
14 IT 'S an old chestnut that crops up at this time every year .
15 Problem was I was playing a British Military Police Chief , and I still had my uniform on when I turned up at this place .
16 What may happen is that the returning reflected stress waves repeatedly meet the outgoing ones at some critical or unlucky point and thus the stress may pile up at this point until fracture occurs .
17 There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish .
18 As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books .
19 Do n't tell me something 's turned up at this stage to stop Cris getting away ? ’
20 Any problems with the wording of the draft questionnaire should show up at this stage and can be corrected before the real investigation starts .
21 A year ago at Unix Expo time we said IBM Corp was interested in moving AIX on to PC platforms other than its own to dispel its proprietary air ( UX No 359 ) : true to the promise , Blue turned up at this year 's Expo with AIX PS/2 Version 1.3 supporting non-Micro Channel boxes and running on Dell Computer Corp , AST Research Inc and Compaq Computer Corp .
22 So what we 've got to say to the County Council I would suggest is that this is a training course similar to those we always got release for branch officials and shop stewards so why should you turn your nose up at this training course ?
23 Quite a gesture , turning up at this hour .
24 One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south .
25 Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform .
26 ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel .
27 The unmitigated gall of the man , strolling up at this time and expecting a welcome .
28 To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area .
29 It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’
30 That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four .
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