Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | You see we divide our time between London and Cornwall and I 'd stayed up late to watch the film with only one light burning . |
2 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
3 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
4 | The morning after he had left his swimming things in the stolen Mini , when he had gone up early to see old Bones , he had found Nails fast asleep in the straw in the chestnut mare 's box . |
5 | First Benny had turned her back on him in public and told him to go home without her after he had driven up especially to collect her . |