Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 2 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 3 | But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | As he ate , he opened and closed drawers , he examined papers and objects on his desk : ‘ I 'll let you loose in the west gallery and catch you up at the door to the stock-room . |
| 5 | Then he knocks it up off the Road to about nine inches for a 4 . |
| 6 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 7 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 8 | But his comment on her age was a throwaway one , it seemed , for he followed it up with a reference to his previous question by asking , ‘ Are you an only child ? ’ |
| 9 | Gallagher drove his right fist into his stomach and followed it up with a left to the mouth . |
| 10 | Some of it , notably the spa buildings and the generous park that goes with them , is down on the floor of the valley , the rest of it up on a terrace to the west , so that from the little square in the middle of the upper town you get quite large views of the mountains . |