Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I need some advice , after all , ’ Hilary said quietly as she walked up to the little group . |
| 2 | Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard . |
| 3 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 4 | He saw the tiny shudder that went through her and felt himself go still as she went up to the horse and began to stroke its face , its flank . |
| 5 | As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns . |
| 6 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 7 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 8 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 9 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 10 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 11 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 12 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 13 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 14 | As they trudged up to the top of a sand-dune , Seal Sands Lock was there below them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This mattered little while Antarctica remained virtually empty , as it did up to the end of World War II , but became important in post-war years when scientists and technicians of many nations began to work there . |
| 18 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun . |
| 20 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 21 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 22 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 23 | With two matches remaining , any of East Anglia 's three leading counties could have taken the trophy , but Clark 's nerve held out as he stepped up to the mat with his last wood . |
| 24 | He sang that old sea song as he walked up to the inn door : |
| 25 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 26 | It was not yet ten as he swept up to the space reserved for the Chairman 's car slap in front of the main entrance to Royalbion House . |