Example sentences of "i [vb past] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 2 | I made a lot of mistakes but I owned up to them and was starting to play pretty well . |
| 3 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 4 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 5 | He could n't care less what I got up to . |
| 6 | So I got up to that one but |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I got up to him a couple of times once he only |
| 9 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 10 | I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four . |
| 11 | ‘ I squared up to him but only on the spur of the moment . |
| 12 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
| 13 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The gates were only a few yards ahead and I staggered up to them and halted among my groaning comrades . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 20 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 21 | That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’ |
| 22 | I came up to London last night by the last train because I had to face a Monday morning of solid Cabinet Committees . |
| 23 | ‘ You spoke like someone else when I came up to you . |
| 24 | When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs . |
| 25 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 26 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 27 | I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ And I came up to Swift to deliver his message personally ! |
| 29 | I came up to her and started talking to her , yeah , and then Marsha goes to Gemma like that , it 's like |
| 30 | I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire . |