Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 2 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 3 | Do you feel up to a bit of leg work ? ’ |
| 4 | So as you come up to a roundabout , you 're thinking of the exit or exits . |
| 5 | Go past that , then there 's one or two ne ne newish buildings and then you come up to a spot where you drive in and you go up or over the concrete , that 's Norblast |
| 6 | Are you working up to a proposition ? |
| 7 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 8 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 9 | and they 're all pretty valid , and I can assure you that , if we allow up to a maximum of five hundred and we check out what they 're doing with it , and we put all the right s it 's not going to be money wasted . |
| 10 | and then on a Thursday night you go up , we go up to a place called Pia |
| 11 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 12 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 13 | They add up to a novel of leaking secrets and amputated thoughts , of wildly comic material sometimes dully , almost dutifully deployed , as if the humour had escaped the teller ; of people ‘ missing ’ each other in dialogue |
| 14 | The vehicles were fired upon by two men in civilian clothes as they pulled up to a T-junction . |
| 15 | The one good thing was the Australian pair finally making up their minds to come , the wife 's partners having agreed to her taking up to a year 's sabbatical . |
| 16 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 17 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 18 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 19 | He moved up to a slave . |
| 20 | It adds up to a drag factor that is 13% ‘ slippier ’ through the air , which helps economy and reduces wind noise . |
| 21 | It adds up to a recovery but not a boom , Sudhir Junankar , the deputy director of economic affairs said yesterday . |
| 22 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |
| 23 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 24 | He went up to a taxi driver , the appellant , and showed him a piece of paper on which an address in Ladbroke Grove was written . |