Example sentences of "went [to-vb] up " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 2 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 3 | Also , when I went to stand up I was so whoozy that I just could n't keep my balance , so I slumped back down again . |
| 4 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 5 | Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted |
| 6 | Somehow she got a hold of herself and went to pick up her dress . |
| 7 | I spoke to him while Pam went to pick up her son . |
| 8 | The other evening I went to pick up my other son from his friend 's house . |
| 9 | She said no more , but went to pick up her portmanteau from the Corn Exchange colonnade . |
| 10 | Isabel , backing further into the shadows , dared to breathe again when the soldier went to pick up the ale-cups . |
| 11 | I went to pick up Keith and Richard from Broome station . |
| 12 | Blake went to pick up a handful of the substance , but the Doctor kicked it out of his grasp . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Blake , ’ she called , ‘ I 'm sure you 're needed elsewhere — ’ but even before she could finish speaking another glass crashed off a table , and Charity , still doing battle with her skirt , went to pick up the fragments . |
| 14 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 15 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 16 | The documentary prizes went to Cover Up . |
| 17 | He asked the mother the child 's weight , worked out the dose and Kathleen went to draw up the drug and get the Flamazine ointment . |
| 18 | Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember . |
| 19 | ‘ He went to shut up the chickens , ’ Albert Sandwich said . |
| 20 | Madra went to build up the fire . |
| 21 | Melanie went to clear up the broken toy . |
| 22 | You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks . |
| 23 | So the other girls were there and we were meaning to talk and erm when we went to cash up everybody was interfering and bother , I do n't know , got |
| 24 | Was n't at all sure that she wanted him to have learned anything about her that went to add up to what made her tick . |
| 25 | He went to get up but his legs were numb from kneeling and he had to put his hand out to stop himself from tumbling into the water far below . |
| 26 | and whe when I went to get up I was fine . |
| 27 | He was a close friend of Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) and travelled in his entourage to London on 18 February 1645 when Fairfax went to take up his command of the New Model Army . |
| 28 | I went to wash up as the table edge trembled to a familiar sick-to-the-gut miasma of nothingness . |
| 29 | It drifted close to one of the massive posts and he went to tie up , returning to the puzzled Meredith and looking down on her thoughtfully . |
| 30 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |