Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later , however , a taxi drew up to the kerb and he thrust his golden head out of the window . |
| 2 | He staggered back , half tripped on the cockpit coaming , scrambled up to the deck and then to the ship 's rail . |
| 3 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 4 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 5 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 6 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 7 | Alec moved up to the plane and ran a loving hand along its polished propeller blade . |
| 8 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 9 | Her imagination visualised Luke — always an early riser — driving up to the house and immediately recognising Richard 's car parked outside . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 11 | But characteristically she got her way about going to art school , Beaton persuading her to get her father to come up to the academy and talk about the future of his precocious daughter . |
| 12 | He took time out of a busy schedule to come up to the zoo and meet the rather less glamorous , but real , White 's Tree Frog . |
| 13 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 14 | It adds up to a recovery but not a boom , Sudhir Junankar , the deputy director of economic affairs said yesterday . |
| 15 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 16 | Unless it was pouring with rain he wore no hat or coat , his shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbow and wearing a green baize apron . |
| 17 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 18 | A videodisc player can be connected up to a monitor or television set in the same way as a videocassette player . |
| 19 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 20 | Dandelion , well in front , dashed up to the gap and checked , twitching and staring . |
| 21 | The societies woke up to the threat and realised that the public was no longer naturally coming to them for mortgages . |
| 22 | While in the 1970s Turkish law prevented any art or antiquities from leaving the country , for whatever reason , in the 1980s the Turkish government woke up to the prestige and international recognition that could accrue from sending travelling exhibitions abroad . |
| 23 | A delivery truck drove up to the quay and transferred the entire contents — 107 cases of beer — to the South African yacht , a one-off 61-footer ( 18.5m ) . |
| 24 | She had just finished breakfast when Alain drove up to the house and he was alone ; Marguerite noted that fact with some surprise . |
| 25 | ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Lot of paper in tonight , is n't there ? ’ said Bartlemas , looking up to the Circle and Gallery . |
| 27 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |
| 28 | Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She came up to the wind and headed out to sea as I swung round . |