Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] gate " in BNC.

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1 The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world …
2 Driving up to the gates of the camp , I saw my first legionnaire in parade uniform ; he was wearing a white képi , a green tie and blue cummerbund .
3 While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed .
4 Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk .
5 Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach .
6 ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun .
7 They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son .
8 Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap .
9 No more trucks came up to the gate .
10 As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face .
11 She walked up to the gate at the end of Kee 's garden and waited .
12 Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun .
13 Two men had driven up to the gate in a van containing a 70 kg bomb which they then detonated .
14 ‘ Is it that dog ? ’ she said , coming up to the gate .
15 so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she
16 The charge hardly paused , however , and swarmed up to the gates in a rush .
17 They ran up to the gate and climbed up on to it .
18 He swept up to the gates of the converted Flax Wharf warehouse and sounded the horn .
19 For a start , it was not really a country-house at all , rather a monstrosity on the edge of Bletchley town , with suburban dwellings stretching up to the gates .
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