Example sentences of "[verb] up to go [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 2 | No drive , no ambition ; the team was just turning up to go through the motions ; and behind the scenes , lots of devious insider stuff . ’ |
| 3 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 4 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 5 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 6 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 7 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 8 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 9 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 10 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 11 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 12 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 13 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 14 | Yeah but they were all fixed up to go into the same envelope sort of thing . |
| 15 | I like all this and that bit but she has er , you end up to go on the dirty little foxes and you get on and there 's so , runny nosed yobbo kid about twelve , gets on |
| 16 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 17 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 18 | Vonetta loves House music , and getting dressed up to go to a ‘ rave ’ ; she is twenty-two , at college , and lives at home with her parents , who are from Nigeria . |
| 19 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 20 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |