Example sentences of "[vb past] up to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 2 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 3 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 4 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 5 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 6 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 7 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 8 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 9 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 10 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 11 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 12 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 13 | I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night . |
| 14 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |