Example sentences of "up to [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 2 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 3 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If they come up to me in the members room of the City Hall and say ‘ hello ’ what am I supposed to ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 10 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 13 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |
| 16 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card . |
| 18 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |