Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] up to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Friarage the doctor came at 5am to install a temporary pacemaker and I was sent up to Newcastle by ambulance with a doctor , a nurse and a paramedic . |
| 2 | Leucanthemella serotina is what I was brought up to call Chrysanthemum ulginosum , the so-called moon daisy of Hungary , where it is often found growing in damp places . |
| 3 | I was brought up to work hard for my country . |
| 4 | I was brought up to work in the garden with my father ; we had to grow vegetables ourselves because money was tight . |
| 5 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 7 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 8 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 9 | Much before she was ready she was whisked up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home , deposited outside his elegant and graceful house , and , even while she wanted to call the driver back , he was already on his way . |
| 10 | She was earning up to £180 an hour from rich clients . |
| 11 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 12 | At last , with her right arm in a sling and a large piece of plaster on her forehead , which she had knocked against the post , she was taken up to Mr Fennell 's suite . |
| 13 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 14 | Mark , 26 , is a former Army medic who was called up to man a field hospital during the Gulf War . |
| 15 | Well we said we was going up to Wisbech . |
| 16 | But I also felt that the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to maximum and fully distorted — it was no longer a polyphonic instrument , really . |
| 17 | And there 's a story about the late Duke of Portland when he was travelling up to estate where his lodge was . |
| 18 | He was shown up to Irina 's office immediately . |
| 19 | He was hustled up to London to have his head cut off with less mercy than we would treat a chicken . |
| 20 | He rang to say that he was coming up to town that evening … ’ |
| 21 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |