Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 2 | ‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility . |
| 3 | Just before Christmas , Pogo invited Aubrey and me to go up to Melton Mowbray to hunt . |
| 4 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 5 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 6 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 7 | ‘ There are a lot of musicians in Seattle and every one of them looks up to Jimi Hendrix . |
| 8 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 9 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 10 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 11 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 12 | I made a lot of mistakes but I owned up to them and was starting to play pretty well . |
| 13 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 14 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 15 | He could n't care less what I got up to . |
| 16 | So I got up to that one but |
| 17 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 18 | I got up to him a couple of times once he only |
| 19 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 20 | I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four . |
| 21 | ‘ I squared up to him but only on the spur of the moment . |
| 22 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
| 23 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 24 | I fled up to the tree-house for my knitting but a branch gave way as I grabbed it and I was pitched into the river . |
| 25 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 26 | The gates were only a few yards ahead and I staggered up to them and halted among my groaning comrades . |
| 27 | The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks . |
| 28 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 29 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 30 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |