Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , probably if you want me to get that old mower going I ought to go up to Woods and see if I can get a new drive belt . |
| 2 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 3 | She really ought to stand up to him . |
| 4 | At about 2am I used to go up to the lab . |
| 5 | Before that , he used to go up to London and try to visit her . ’ |
| 6 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 7 | So when you say you used to go up to the pool . |
| 8 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 9 | He bought the car off my boy i i it was worth five thousand odd , it was worth and he , he used to cart me about , see just you know , Steve did , before he , we got this money he used to go up to what is that ? |
| 10 | Well we were n't in and Dempsey always used to go up to Jane , right ? |
| 11 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 12 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 13 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 14 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 15 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 16 | Do you know when we used to walk up to the shopping centre from our house ? |
| 17 | I used to play up to that , pretend to be the lady . |
| 18 | Cos I used to look up to her cos she was older than me . |
| 19 | Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep . |
| 20 | He used to get up to all kinds of high jinks on those trips , by all accounts . |
| 21 | ‘ We used to get up to all sorts of tricks . ’ |
| 22 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 23 | Our detective office was two flights of stairs above the enquiry office , and they used to ring up to our office and say I 'm sending a Mr upstairs , he 's lost his bicycle from the library , I 'm showing him up . |
| 24 | They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward . |
| 25 | The injunctions set the standards that we ought to live up to , and their effect is to make people 's self-esteem contingent on living up to them . |
| 26 | ‘ Instead of playing games with us , you ought to face up to your responsibilities and the consequences of your actions — ’ |