Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] up see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie glanced up to see her quietly mouthing the words as lights from the screen flickered across her face . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ronni glanced up to see Guido standing there watching her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 7 | With a faintly fatalistic feeling , Rory glanced up to see Adam approaching the bar . |
| 8 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 9 | Not long after they arrived home from school , Linda and Ella went up to see Sergeant Joe . |
| 10 | When Tommy did n't answer him , Mr Trotter looked up to see tear dripping off his rosy cheeks . |
| 11 | Kelly looked up to see Heraldic bolting towards the start with Damien clinging vainly upside down round his neck . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Anne looked up to see his face . |
| 14 | After a while João came up to see how she was . |
| 15 | Greg looked up to see an elderly man , with rimless glasses , droopy moustaches and a slight air of remoteness and authority . |
| 16 | Ashley glanced up to see that , at long last , the donkey carts had shifted and the traffic had begun to flow . |
| 17 | Nora looked up to see John doing his best to hide a smile of triumph . |
| 18 | Her thoughts still whirling , Shae looked up to see Marianne standing by the table , her green eyes calculating and faintly malicious as she glanced from Shannon to Gavin . |
| 19 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |