Example sentences of "she [vb past] up [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how she got up to fix the ceiling chains . ’ |
| 2 | When much later in the afternoon she got up to get the tea a tearing sound was heard as her nice blue overall parted with the gummy chair — she let out a burst of laughter . |
| 3 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 4 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 5 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |