Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 2 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
| 3 | He had overshot by fifty yards but , since there was no room to turn , he 'd backed up to the junction in a rapid , snaky line , and picked them up again after ten minutes of anxious-cautious driving — fast on the straights , slow on the bends . |
| 4 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 5 | But he must take care that what he creates builds up to a monolithic whole . |
| 6 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 7 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 8 | He kept running up to the cross-street turned right back towards M slowing but glancing at his watch to excuse a half-jog |
| 9 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 10 | I thought he was following me and other hotel-guests to the shelter , but he was n't ; he had gone up to the roof ‘ to watch it all ’ . |
| 11 | Erm , who only later realised what he had opened up to the whole of mankind . |
| 12 | But he 's doped up to the eyeballs and he 's in you know , painkillers . |