Example sentences of "up to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 5 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 6 | I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 15 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 20 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 21 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 24 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll hand them up to you from the bottom of the steps , and you stay by the cart . ’ |
| 26 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |
| 27 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card . |
| 29 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |