Example sentences of "up to [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went up to her and calmed her and helped her to bed . |
| 2 | Indeed , when Jessica had locked her car with all the others at the Moira roundabout — travel-sharing , she assumed , hardheaded Ulstermen saving on the petrol — Rory had walked up to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth as if they owned each other . |
| 3 | He went up to her and touched her shoulder awkwardly . |
| 4 | He 's walked up to her and asked her out ! |
| 5 | Mary was no longer scared of Mum ; she stood up to her and matched her temper . |
| 6 | When she was halfway there , he caught up to her and spun her around to face him . |
| 7 | As he came into the room , he realised that she was crying quietly , and he went up to her and put his arms around her as tightly and as reassuringly as possible . |
| 8 | Right up to me and said you were really good look right ? |
| 9 | just ignore , I 'd , I 'd ignore the person , what , so if somebody came up to me and said you go out with Henry in it ? |
| 10 | I know , woke up this morning she was , she was obviously cold , cat was right under the covers , snuggled right up to me and got her , her chin on me arm like that , I was asleep Justifying Nation , did you like that ? |
| 11 | After one TV show , a woman came up to me and cried her eyes out , not for my daughter , but because her dog was being ignored . |
| 12 | I ran up to him and took his hand in mine . |
| 13 | As on every night , she went up to him and kissed him on the lips . |
| 14 | Charles walked straight up to him and asked what was wrong . |
| 15 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 16 | Bigwig , still trailing his horrible , smooth peg , staggered up to him and touched his nose with his own . |
| 17 | ‘ You know the story about Gerhard , looking as he usually does , standing on the steps of Horseguards after a Cabinet Committee , when a kindly person sidled up to him and gave him a quid to buy himself breakfast ? ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 19 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 20 | A waiter came up to him and handed him an airmail copy of some newspaper . |
| 21 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 23 | Here she raised her square white face up to his and sought his eyes . |
| 24 | She half expected Guy to wrench her face back up to his and braced herself to resist , but to her astonishment he laughed softly . |
| 25 | Then she turned her head and stared to the top of her cage , and then flew darkly up to it and took her usual stance staring up , up now towards the moon and distant stars . |