Example sentences of "up [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
| 2 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 3 | This was the origin of the myth that workers had to put their hands up to go to the lavatory . |
| 4 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 5 | Vonetta loves House music , and getting dressed up to go to a ‘ rave ’ ; she is twenty-two , at college , and lives at home with her parents , who are from Nigeria . |
| 6 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 7 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 8 | Major 's brother is too hard up to go to Butlin 's |
| 9 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 10 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 11 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 12 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 13 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 14 | I have fixed up to go to Bembridge School as Art Master , live there , half time work . |
| 15 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 16 | And then he used to pick the undress goods up to go to G and W 's , still down Road . |
| 17 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 18 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 19 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 20 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 21 | There was one time she was all dressed up to go to town and I did n't know her because she had a hat on . |
| 22 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 23 | Er and that 's been fixed up to go to Wilmslow in Cheshire next Tuesday . |
| 24 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 25 | I had only attended three of his lectures before he had signed up to go to France … |
| 26 | The difference last week sit down getting up to go to Blackbushe . |
| 27 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 28 | He 's being picked up to go to St. Joseph 's , I bet . |
| 29 | If there are two parties each putting forward programmes which they are pledged to carry out if elected to government , and which they are able to carry out because they possess sufficient internal cohesion , then the electorate in choosing a programme ( and a programme at that which has been drawn up to appeal to their interests ) mandates a party to carry out its programme and holds the party accountable for its adequate fulfillment at the next election . |
| 30 | The Routine Business Committee was set up to attend to matters of a routine nature , or those which have already been approved in principle by the Board or the Executive Committee and require further detailed work to carry them into effect . |