Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 2 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 3 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 4 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 5 | Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral . |
| 6 | And his finger was pointing up to the ceiling . |
| 7 | The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through . |
| 8 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 9 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 10 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 11 | As the younger one was reaching up to the mantlepiece with the flowers , her frock caught fire ; her sister ran to her aid , and soon both girls were engulfed in the flames . |