Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just went up to him and kept on kissing him and begged : ‘ No kill , no kill . ’ |
| 2 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 3 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 4 | ’ I just stood up to him one day — do n't ask me where I got the nerve from , because he was a bloody big geezer . |
| 5 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I also went up to the John Moores exhibition that year . |
| 7 | And , I nearly got up to Beachfield cos Carole said ooh it looks as though it 's going down Hampton ! |
| 8 | ‘ He 's a really big man , both physically and in terms of his character , and I really looked up to him as a tower of strength when we were doing Neighbours . ’ |
| 9 | I really look up to people like Mary Ellen Mark . |
| 10 | Er it was a short time after , having given the order for the officers to enter the flat , erm maybe three or four minutes after that erm , having received the information that the flat was secure , it was safe to enter er I then went up to the flat . |
| 11 | At the time I almost lived up to my nickname , Bone — close to Tone , and closer still to bone idle . |
| 12 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 13 | Valves of drysuits freeze up if pressed for too long , and a careless diver in a drysuit may find himself suddenly hurtling up to the surface , with potentially fatal consequences . |
| 14 | She had to keep up rental payments which finally mounted up to £570 a quarter — regardless . |
| 15 | As teachers , we should notice that a clear understanding of the formal connections between sentences may help to explain one of the ways in which foreign language students sometimes write supposedly connected sentences , each of which is well-formed in itself , but which somehow add up to very strange discourse . |
| 16 | Lateral thinking and tolerating eccentricity are British characteristics whereas quality programmes tend to be made up of a lot of little things which cumulatively add up to something important . ’ |
| 17 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 18 | Olivetti unveiled Pyramid-developed boards with from one-to-four high-end MIPS R4000MP CPUs which can plug into its previously announced Advanced Computing Environment LSX 5030 multi-processor , which currently uses up to four 33MHz Intel 80486 parts . |
| 19 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 20 | One , two , three why did you suddenly leap up to five |
| 21 | She cried until she could cry no more , until she felt sick , until her head ached , and when she finally stumbled up to bed she merely threw off her clothes and climbed , shivering , between the icy covers . |
| 22 | Late in the evening , she finally slipped up to her bedroom , walking barefooted so that she would n't be heard . |
| 23 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 24 | Could you just ring up to old Si and let him know I 've arrived ? ’ |
| 25 | And she like goes up to him quite freely and just kisses him on the lips , you know okay fair enough people have friendships like that but it 's not a kind of kiss on the cheek it is as if there 's something in it , you know , as if always she 's rubbing it into him . |
| 26 | She once summed up to a gathering of marketing specialists the extent of her success , which earned The Body Shop the award of business of the year in 1987 : |
| 27 | Cos if you ever squared up to one of these or anybody in the flats , people 'd just come out of the out of the woodwork . |
| 28 | Have you ever walked up to a fox and given it a cuddle without it trying to bite your arms off ? |
| 29 | ‘ Do you ever get up to New York ? ’ asked Antonio . |
| 30 | He 's also good with the kids , who really look up to him . ’ |