Example sentences of "[verb] up to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 2 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 3 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 4 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 5 | So you come up behind it so that your body and the striker 's ball , that being your red ball and the other ball , the object ball are always the same straight line I mean it does n't matter whether you come in from the side you 're walking up to it in a straight line put your mallet down , swing it through . |
| 6 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 8 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 9 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 10 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 11 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 12 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 13 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 14 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 15 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 16 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 17 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 18 | I had already read the book but the film matched up to it in every way , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 20 | He replaced Michael Duane with his old friend , Peter Solowka , who was disillusioned with the jobs opened up to him by a degree in environmental biology . |
| 21 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ wobbled the blue chins as he came looming up to me like an ocean liner in a fog . |
| 22 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 23 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 24 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 25 | She walked up to them with a kind of swagger . |
| 26 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |
| 27 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 28 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 29 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 30 | There was no sign of Madra , Riven noticed with a pang , and the beer was brought up to them by a serving maid he did not know . |