Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rejects had all turned up to see me . |
| 2 | I 've just rung up to see , I was gon na ask Jo to nip out and get me a cake and see if the advert was in , but it do it does n't actually come out , it 's like the local Chronicle here , it comes out on a Thursday night |
| 3 | I just popped up to see Sergeant Joe , did n't I ? |
| 4 | She was about to kick it aside , but luckily glanced up to see Luch 's watchful eye on her . |
| 5 | As Damian spoke to them now , Katya and Lydia both glanced up to see Rachel standing alone on the dance area in her white bridal gown , watching Damian with intense passion in her green eyes . |
| 6 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 7 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 8 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure you 're right , ’ she laughed , then glanced up to see Rob approaching with a tall , elegant blonde woman . |
| 10 | growing out that way and then curving up see what I mean ? |
| 11 | I pulled my boat near to the ship , then stood up to see through the cabin window . |
| 12 | These were wise words from a wise old bird , but Matilda was too steamed up to see it that way . |
| 13 | Often it is the company wife who is being quietly summed up to see if she can ‘ keep up ’ with her husband or pull her weight in a job which makes a lot of social demands . |
| 14 | er , we actually went up to see erm |