Example sentences of "[vb pp] up at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 2 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 3 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 4 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 5 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 6 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 7 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 8 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 9 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 10 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 11 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 12 | Then one night Travis arrived , keyed up at the thought of seeing Rosemary again . |
| 13 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 14 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 15 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
| 16 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 17 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |
| 18 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’ |
| 20 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 21 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 22 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 23 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 24 | This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden , however . |
| 25 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 26 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
| 27 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 28 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 29 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 30 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |