Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like .
2 She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs .
3 I fled up to the tree-house for my knitting but a branch gave way as I grabbed it and I was pitched into the river .
4 ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there .
5 I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church .
6 That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’
7 The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks .
8 It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me .
9 ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’
10 Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap .
11 I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape .
12 I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head .
13 I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire .
14 So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm .
15 I climbed up to the gateway of the bridge and hid in a dark corner .
16 Leaping off the bed I hurtled up to the rod which by now was screaming off and picking it up I felt the line pluck nicely through my fingers ; knowing that it must be a cat on the other end gave me a real thrill .
17 Suddenly the alarm bell sounded and hastily dressing I rushed up to the bridge .
18 I walked up to the bar , passing several people I had never seen before who were obviously volunteers .
19 Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun .
20 I believe I gave Joe a bit of a shock when I walked up to the table and played a few shots with him .
21 I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered .
22 He is a forestry expert and has a small stud as a hobby , so now the stables are being used again and I wake up to the clop-clop of horses ' hooves on the cobbles in the morning .
23 Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ?
24 Oh Brian annoyed me on my lesson I pulled up to the Kingsway right ?
25 I , I worked up to the end of May and because of accrued leave I er I left then .
26 And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement .
27 I looked up to the skies for no reason I can now remember , probably a spot of rain or a ray of sunshine .
28 Then , in my mind , I reached up to the heavens , held out my hands , grasped the ball and brought it down .
29 I go up to the place it happened : to remember the way it was , actually . "
30 I go up to the counter and have a look to see what they got to eat .
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