Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 'll save me phoning up to say can I have a script please |
| 2 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 3 | ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 6 | I got up to leave . |
| 7 | When I got up to leave , Princess Flavia said , ‘ Rudolf , you will be careful , wo n't you ? |
| 8 | Anyway , that was the other thing , it was raining so hard , rattling at the windowpane in the dark … even so , I was convinced I 'd heard something , and at that hour there 's nobody else up except the baker , and he 's over here on this side of the Piazza , so I got up to take a look and saw this girl lying there in the rain . |
| 9 | As I got up to take it from him , there was a sharp rapping at the front door . |
| 10 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 11 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 12 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 13 | His tone was dismissive , and I got up to go . |
| 14 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 15 | I got up to go . |
| 16 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 17 | I got up to go . |
| 18 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 19 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 20 | Mr Benn is a thoroughly charming man , and I was pleased to pay tribute to him when I got up to speak . |
| 21 | Edward came back struggling with a load of planks , and I got up to help him . |
| 22 | I got up to get some water and went to the window . |
| 23 | I got up to look , and something else caught my eye . |
| 24 | Late that night , I though I heard the baby crying , but when I got up to look , he was quietly asleep in hid bed . |
| 25 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 26 | So I got up to have a look out of the side window . |
| 27 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |
| 28 | When I got up to walk , glass crunched under my feet . |
| 29 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 30 | And I stopped up to watch snooker and it went on until after twelve |