Example sentences of "up [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard .
2 I would n't keep lifting them up to see how they were doing , and I 'd be pretty hesitant about pruning them too .
3 After a while João came up to see how she was .
4 Every six months or so he turns up to see how his precious money 's being spent .
5 Willi came up to see how he was during the morning .
6 ‘ As she got up to go past she said : ‘ Give me a ring and we 'll do the Home Furnishing Collection tomorrow . ’
7 An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths .
8 I 'm not swapping anything with her they ended up bringing back my games !
9 And it comes back up to like where we were .
10 If you actually put that up to near where he is it could even .
11 You went on to do sterling work in the diarrhoea , headaches and vomiting department and you ended up coughing out your last in a way that Henry thought would be entirely suitable for Elinor .
12 I booked the conference not realising it was gon na be the control room by this time , and then this morning I turned up to find out we ca n't put the lights on without getting behind the bar , and we ca n't get behind the bar so that 's why this er
13 The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on .
14 Yeah but you do n't know whether it 's not er people phoning up to find out who 's there and whether he 's there and all to do with burglaries and things .
15 Well if daddy goes back up to work tomorrow I think we might go out to London .
16 It 's all been cleaned up has n't it ?
17 And then the whole , the thing has been , the house has been done up has n't it ?
18 No I know he 's taped it up has n't he ?
19 She no longer woke up wondering why she was alive , wondering how she would get through the day .
20 In All 's Well Helena goes up to verse whenever she talks of her love for Bertram , moving in and out of prose several times within a scene ( I.i. ; I.iii. ; II.v. ; III.ii. ; III.v. ) , in the flexibility that marks the mid-period plays .
21 ‘ My mum 's mate is a stomper and she ended up staying round my house and jumping in the sack with him .
22 My real aim is to one day see a lot of young people coming up to do exactly what I am doing .
23 It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one .
24 It makes a sorry epitaph to a great career , ended Emerson 's FI ambitions , wound up breaking up his marriage , alienated the public , caused dissent in his own family and forced Emerson into retirement .
25 One review summed it up saying how we were ‘ classes better in every outfield position ’ , City were extremely fortunate to get a goal , let alone a point .
26 Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs .
27 But we trust too many people and er could certainly find burglaries have gone up gone up something like five hundred percent in the last two or three years .
28 It is very important not to drink early in the pregnancy , but even if you give up drinking later it will give your baby a better chance .
29 I mean if I was a peasant and someone told me to give up drinking then I 'd , you know
30 It makes more sense me picking you up dun n it ?
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