Example sentences of "they [vb past] up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 2 | Somehow , she 'd have to end it before they moved up to the room , or the suite , or whatever Charlie 's contact had lined up for them . |
| 3 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 4 | By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained . |
| 5 | They drove up to the crossroads at the centre of the town . |
| 6 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 7 | They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son . |
| 8 | They came up to the Renault . |
| 9 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 10 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 11 | As they trudged up to the top of a sand-dune , Seal Sands Lock was there below them . |
| 12 | They walked up to the Washington on the corner of England 's Lane . |
| 13 | They served up to the public a version of events and only those , like Dexter , who were privy to the truth would be able to distinguish how close that version of events was to reality . |
| 14 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 15 | And then they went up to the village and it the first one would been 's , 's and and 's . |
| 16 | They went up to the street with her , Tom carrying her coat and Peter her case . |
| 17 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 18 | On Sunday they went up to the common , a performance ; lifting the pram , Emma still insisted on for the sake of Ruth 's spine , into and off the tube , the escalators . |
| 19 | He met Pilger in the foyer and they went up to the room . |
| 20 | After some minutes they went up to the room . |
| 21 | They ran up to the gate and climbed up on to it . |
| 22 | Gradually , as they stole up to the Belmont stockade , Dulé distinguished different sounds — the fierce explosions of musket fire , the shrieking of the attackers , the yells and shouts and curses and groans of fighting men , their voices thick with fury , the different languages reduced to meaninglessness by the struggles , as men grappled , stabbed , battered , poked at one another 's eyes and even bit one another in the combat at close quarters ; while at a distance the screams of rage and pain merged with the volleys of musket fire and the singing of the arrows . |