Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The vehicles were fired upon by two men in civilian clothes as they pulled up to a T-junction . |
| 6 | He moved up to a slave . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |