Example sentences of "up find " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's going to ring someone up to find out more about it . ’ |
| 2 | There have been far too many examples of artists ‘ living for the moment ’ , putting their faith in others to run their career , and waking up to find themselves penniless , out of favour with the public and feeling rather stupid . |
| 3 | He was staggered that he had to look almost straight up to find it . |
| 4 | They looked up to find Sister Cooney standing there . |
| 5 | One day Mr Hurd woke up to find that he was the Foreign Secretary , pinched himself , and found that his first big job was forcibly deporting the boat people in Hong Kong back to Vietnam . |
| 6 | The telephone was ringing as McLeish walked into his own flat , and he picked it up to find his Commander on the other end of the line . |
| 7 | Charsky woke up to find his father , vividly present a moment before , vanished from the room . |
| 8 | Poor old Beatrice began by wanting to show how self-denying and supportive Ellen Ash was and she messed around looking up every recipe for gooseberry jam and every jaunt to Broadstairs for twenty-five years , can you believe it , and woke up to find that no one wanted self-denial and dedication any more , they wanted proof that Ellen was raging with rebellion and pain and untapped talent . |
| 9 | Early one morning , I ran up to find the horses had the same idea . |
| 10 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |
| 11 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 12 | If any are marked , ring up to find out when they are operational . |
| 13 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 14 | And then the church bells began to ring , and she woke up to find it was Christmas morning . |
| 15 | In Fearless Frank , Phil Kaufman 's first solo feature , Voight played a country bumpkin who comes to Chicago , gets shot by mobsters , and wakes up to find he has the powers of a superman . |
| 16 | Mia , waking up to find her companion still sleeping , hardly gives the impression that she has spent a passionate night . |
| 17 | At the beginning of our second week in Corfu , I woke up to find a lump beneath my left arm the size of a pigeon 's egg and two smaller ones running into my breast . |
| 18 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 19 | Willie lifted it up to find Tom standing on the steps , with a large tray in his hands . |
| 20 | 2 ) Heard about the enraged Moroccan team which turned up to find their flag emblazoned with the six-pointed Star of David ? |
| 21 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 22 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 23 | Like , for instance , waking up to find your face the butt of tiresome vegetative humour . |
| 24 | TV 's Bill star Nula Conwell had to call in the real police when she woke up to find her home burgled . |
| 25 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 26 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 27 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 28 | The year after I joined , I attended the party and drank several pints of a mixture of lager and gin , after which I lost consciousness in the changing rooms ; I woke up to find myself being hit , kicked and pushed down the stairs . |
| 29 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 30 | Nu only joined the government belatedly and reluctantly ; he confessed to ‘ suddenly wake up to find ‘ Made in Japan ’ printed on his forehead . ’ |