Example sentences of "[verb] up [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 2 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 3 | Across the choppy water from them stands Billingsgate Fish Market , smartened up to tone with the neighbourhood . |
| 4 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 5 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 6 | I concede that the current recession and the Government 's mismanagement of the economy have a part to play in the fact that prestige projects are not lining up to locate in the bay . |
| 7 | This allows you to make a more considered approach than a telephone call and to use the job matching list you have drawn up to bring to the employer 's attention the reasons why you are suitable for the job and why you should be seen for interview . |
| 8 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 9 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 10 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 11 | ‘ Come on , Marge , before Robin Day turns up to join in the debate ! ’ |
| 12 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 15 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 16 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 17 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 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 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 21 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 22 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 23 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 24 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 25 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 26 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |
| 27 | She expelled her breath sharply , and automatically reached up to fiddle with the bun at her nape , easing her arms back , trying to release the tension mounting in her shoulders . |
| 28 | But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment . |
| 29 | As he did in midweek against Wolves , Whitton stepped up to score from the spot . |
| 30 | Do you have any reminiscences of the the Great War and the way it affected , were many of the men called up to serve from the area ? |