Example sentences of "[verb] up to see [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 4 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 5 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 6 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 7 | He was n't brought up to see a woman like that and therefore it was an unholy , appalling state of affairs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 10 | Suddenly there was this tremendous roar , and we looked up to see a mass of snow and rocks rolling down a gully . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | As he clambered over the rocks , parting the scrub and the brambles to peer into crevices , he heard a droning throb overhead and looked up to see a helicopter . |
| 13 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |
| 14 | Ingrid watched in amazement as the eggs disappeared as if they were being sucked into quicksand , and looked up to see every man 's eyes riveted upon Ilse 's gaping crack . |
| 15 | We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur . |
| 16 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 19 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 20 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 21 | 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 . |