Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] up to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I go up to the place it happened : to remember the way it was , actually . "
6 I go up to the counter and have a look to see what they got to eat .
7 I go up to the counter say , erm , I 'd like this please , but it 's actually got this tear in it , or whatever 's wrong with it , erm , can you give me some discount ?
8 When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’
9 I mean I shout up to the bathroom , I mean
10 Then I step up to the bar to order more beer .
11 When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house .
12 Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’
13 It 's fairly important that as , when you walk up to the ball you 're body is in line with , where you want to be .
14 Some questions to see how you match up to the job
15 If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all .
16 As you edge up to the line , keep nudging into wind as this will create a small gap downwind .
17 Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod .
18 You go up to the top , then ski back down to the bottom .
19 erm Turner replied , ‘ If you go up to the top of Mount Edgecombe , and look at the ships against the light , with the setting sun behind them , you will realise that one can not distinguish the portholes . ’
20 Cos you go up to the Abbey there
21 ‘ People think that once you move up to the marathon , then bang , that 's it , there 's no way back .
22 One way to instil confidence is to start with a positive attitude and this starts the moment you step up to the ball .
23 And please , if you come up to the door and the times of opening says closed on there , we 're not closed , it 's just sometimes we 've forgotten to change the closed to open .
24 Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ?
25 We go up to the wheel base and Yeb is instantly recognised .
26 So anyway we come up to the roundabout and she never .
27 None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain .
28 The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes
29 During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years .
30 No details yet ( although a possible game against Italy has been mooted ) however , and it seems the national side may not have an engagement before they square up to the World Champions in November — gross score from the last two encounters being Wales 9 Australia 101 .
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