Example sentences of "i [vb past] up [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I woke up to find the doctor lifting me very carefully into my own bed . |
| 2 | No , I rang up to say the car should be out on Monday should I like to say Wednesday , no problem . |
| 3 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
| 4 | Early one morning , I ran up to find the horses had the same idea . |
| 5 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |