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Example sentences of "up to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Now , his security escort was dishing him up to her on a plate .
2	The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her .
3	Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’
4	So , I tried to make it up to her in every way I could — though it was n't easy — she went on hating me for years . ’
5	Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ?
6	Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs .
7	I hope he makes it up to her in the end .
8	I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night .
9	She walked up to them with a kind of swagger .
10	Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre .
11	There was no sign of Madra , Riven noticed with a pang , and the beer was brought up to them by a serving maid he did not know .
12	He came up to me outside the church .
13	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 .
14	He had recovered his composure , and faced up to me with a chill warmth .
15	In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug .
16	A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was .
17	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 ? ’
18	Because Mrs B , right she just prejudiced , she comes up to me in the Cookery lesson , tell me to clean out the dustbin , and I was so vexed I started to cry , I was so vexed by it .
19	I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos .
20	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 ?
21	People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me .
22	Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’
23	‘ Just a minute , ’ wobbled the blue chins as he came looming up to me like an ocean liner in a fog .
24	Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant .
25	Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment .
26	Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’
27	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 .
28	‘ He 's a really big man , both physically and in terms of his character , and I really looked up to him as a tower of strength when we were doing Neighbours . ’
29	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 . ’
30	He replaced Michael Duane with his old friend , Peter Solowka , who was disillusioned with the jobs opened up to him by a degree in environmental biology .