Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 2 | Frankie glanced up to see her quietly mouthing the words as lights from the screen flickered across her face . |
| 3 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 4 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 5 | He probably will not sleep in the unlikely event of the ghost of mass murderess Mary Ann Cotton showing up to see the graves of her victims . |
| 6 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 7 | Another fortnight 's quiet made us coax my parents to come up to see Barrie 's ‘ What every woman knows ’ with Barbara Mullen . |
| 8 | Ronni glanced up to see Guido standing there watching her . |
| 9 | Parents turn up to see their own children doing something so attendance is bound to fall off if the major parts in the service are always taken by the same one or two children . |
| 10 | The Chesterfield heirs never lived here ; they spurned Brizlincote , and its radial oak avenues and the formal gardens grew up to see no Stanhope carriages bowling down the drive . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's amazing how many folk come up to see about it , and they , they decide eventually not to . |
| 12 | In the middle of the night one of Kiku 's cats got in among the dogs and , when Burun got up to see what was causing the commotion , he found Suragai trying to save the animal . |
| 13 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 14 | With a faintly fatalistic feeling , Rory glanced up to see Adam approaching the bar . |
| 15 | The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him . |
| 16 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 17 | Dr Losberne gave orders that plenty of beer should be served before the officers went up to see Oliver . |
| 18 | B : quite often + about once a month + actually ++ I come up to see my children |
| 19 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 20 | The comics come from all over the world and there were people queueing up to see it when we opened last Saturday . ’ |
| 21 | Police and ambulances turned up to see what was going on , but six bouncers could n't prevent the metal entrance shutters from being wrecked , while inside Michaela was getting a barrage of abuse . |
| 22 | Thousands of people rolled up to see this infamous figure in the summer of 1932 . |
| 23 | Not long after they arrived home from school , Linda and Ella went up to see Sergeant Joe . |
| 24 | But if you made it law that the breweries would lose their retail outlet and the publican and barman would lose their licences , you 'd soon find they make time and make staff check up to see if people were drunk . |
| 25 | When Tommy did n't answer him , Mr Trotter looked up to see tear dripping off his rosy cheeks . |
| 26 | Kelly looked up to see Heraldic bolting towards the start with Damien clinging vainly upside down round his neck . |
| 27 | ‘ Wan na dance ? ’ a voice enquired and Sally looked up to see a boy in a velvet-collared jacket , drainpipes and crepe-soled shoes standing in front of her , a lick of greasy hair falling across a face shiny with perspiration . |
| 28 | Anne looked up to see his face . |
| 29 | After a while João came up to see how she was . |
| 30 | Greg looked up to see an elderly man , with rimless glasses , droopy moustaches and a slight air of remoteness and authority . |