Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 2 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 3 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 4 | I fled up to the tree-house for my knitting but a branch gave way as I grabbed it and I was pitched into the river . |
| 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 | The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks . |
| 7 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 8 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 9 | That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’ |
| 11 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 12 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |
| 13 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 14 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 15 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 16 | I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire . |
| 17 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 18 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
| 19 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 20 | I climbed up to the gateway of the bridge and hid in a dark corner . |
| 21 | Leaping off the bed I hurtled up to the rod which by now was screaming off and picking it up I felt the line pluck nicely through my fingers ; knowing that it must be a cat on the other end gave me a real thrill . |
| 22 | Suddenly the alarm bell sounded and hastily dressing I rushed up to the bridge . |
| 23 | I walked up to the bar , passing several people I had never seen before who were obviously volunteers . |
| 24 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 25 | I believe I gave Joe a bit of a shock when I walked up to the table and played a few shots with him . |
| 26 | Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun . |
| 27 | I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered . |
| 28 | He is a forestry expert and has a small stud as a hobby , so now the stables are being used again and I wake up to the clop-clop of horses ' hooves on the cobbles in the morning . |
| 29 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 30 | Oh Brian annoyed me on my lesson I pulled up to the Kingsway right ? |