Example sentences of "[vb past] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swam up to her and said , ‘ If you want to surf like a man you 're going to be treated like a man . ’ |
| 2 | He swam up to her . |
| 3 | And so if you swam up to somebody who was in difficulty , and you approach them from the front their automatic reaction is to throw their arms around you , do n't let them do it ! |
| 4 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 5 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 6 | She wandered up to him . |
| 7 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 8 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 9 | As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill . |
| 10 | Perhaps they were wrong ; perhaps the spoke of the wheel on which he was clinging would never be swung over so hard by Lady Fortune that he would be prised loose and fall , limbs sprawling , like the figures on the rose window of the cathedral , while others — Tommaso , where was Tommaso now ? — rose up to be garlanded at chance 's whim . |
| 11 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 12 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 13 | She came to rest beside the statue of Father Matthew , the Apostle of Temperance , and as Jacob drew up to her he joked : ‘ You would n't want to get too close to him . |
| 14 | A few moments later , however , a taxi drew up to the kerb and he thrust his golden head out of the window . |
| 15 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 16 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 17 | As they drew up to Belmodes , Rose said , ‘ I know you 're a rotten little tyke in many ways , but professionally you 're the tops . |
| 18 | In 1979 , the largest holiday operator , Thomsons , charged up to £145 for a week 's high season full board in Majorca — the most popular foreign holiday destination now and then . |
| 19 | Loulou charged up to each new arrival , thumping and hugging in a demonstrative greeting . |
| 20 | Then Henrietta and Samantha charged up to the tower , with Jacqueline stumbling after them , to quarrel about their bedrooms . |
| 21 | A girl of about Xanthe 's age bounced up to my side as I walked slowly along in front of the grandstand , and said , ‘ Hi ! |
| 22 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 23 | At the end of November 1973 , over 16,000 were outstanding , and the average period from receipt to decisions ranged up to sixty-five weeks ( for cases decided by the secretary of state after a local inquiry ) . |
| 24 | Even as she watched , the gooey material oozed up to her knees . |
| 25 | He was still in the middle of the road when the horses thundered up to the inn . |
| 26 | Caro peered up to the black sky . |
| 27 | In 1834 it was described as red like the Devon with a golden nose , long silky hair , prominent eyes , wide forehead , fairly wide muzzle , small dewlap , rather thin forelegs of moderate length and a barrel-shaped body ; the average oxen of the time weighed up to 545kg with some up to 725kg . |
| 28 | The hunger strike involved up to 350 students plus thousands of supporters camped in tents in Kiev 's October Revolution Square and on the steps of the parliament building . |
| 29 | When she was halfway there , he caught up to her and spun her around to face him . |
| 30 | Don Shears ( Avon ) moved up to the 55 age group where , seeded number 4 following his unbeaten run in the Dubler Cup , he reached the semi-final to give the ultimate runner-up , Gordon Davis ( USA ) a tough fight after battling through three exhausting rounds . |