Example sentences of "[indef pn] up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive , boneless saunter : he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room . |
| 2 | She 's going to ring someone up to find out more about it . ’ |
| 3 | Er just make it available , if somebody asks for it , they 'll go and drag somebody up to have a look at you , and they will keep er er they 've made it so they keep an independent arm , but it 's not the major part of their business . |
| 4 | Pick one up to suit yourself . ’ |
| 5 | I pick one up to examine it — then drop it in disgust . |
| 6 | They want to run one up to see what the maximum speed is , well of course that 's gon na destroy it . |
| 7 | I can understand like you picking one up to get rid of it if you 're not scared of it , but playing with one , keeping it as a pet ! |
| 8 | The crew have got a couple of machines which churn everything up to make white water and the chippie ran up some rocks which they anchor to the bottom of the river and look just like the real thing . |
| 9 | Size everything up to make sure it 's too big to swallow . |
| 10 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 11 | Only then did the cops bother to send anyone up to check to see if we were okay . |
| 12 | By way of contrast , the second qualifying race was run in Chichester Harbour with a warm wind blowing at anything up to force 5 . |