Example sentences of "he [vb past] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 2 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 3 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 4 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 5 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 6 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 7 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun . |
| 9 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 10 | He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey . |
| 11 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 12 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 13 | He came up to the Hilder at the point where the aqueduct pillars crossed it . |
| 14 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 15 | What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his . |
| 16 | He woke up to the nauseating smell of burning skin and a roaring sound . |
| 17 | All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination . |
| 18 | He faced up to the notorious Chelsea Boot Boys with an electrified fence but was refused permission to switch it on . |
| 19 | Using a special pedal-extension device , he faced up to the suddenly enormous-looking Steinway in something of a David and Goliath meeting , and triumphed . |
| 20 | He climbed up to the catwalk and examined the roof , then strolled around surveying the empty space and making knowledgeable noises . |
| 21 | He walked up to the green and found a spot to land on . |
| 22 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 23 | He walked up to the pram and looked down at the young child . |
| 24 | Once when dancing with Minton at the Gargoyle and hearing some Guards officers making snide remarks he walked up to the table , laden with food and champagne , where they were sitting with their ladies and overturned the lot , and was barred from the club for about two weeks . |
| 25 | He walked up to the front door and pushed a button but the chimes went unanswered . |
| 26 | He walked up to the table , smiled , pulled out a chair and sat down . |
| 27 | He sang that old sea song as he walked up to the inn door : |
| 28 | And then the Sergeant nudged Devlin and he walked up to the desk where Cardiff was sitting . |
| 29 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 30 | he walked up to the over here , so he 's on his way up that side somewhere . |