Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 2 | I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 4 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 5 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 7 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 8 | So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick . |
| 9 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 10 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 11 | ‘ I waited up just to make sure you got back to the hotel safely . |
| 12 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 13 | I stayed up late to clear things up , and got up early to do the same thing . |
| 14 | They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange . |
| 15 | But she turned up late to start off with . |
| 16 | And others who ring up just to talk , and they feel much better , and they cry and they get distressed . |
| 17 | She reached up now to kiss him on both cheeks . |
| 18 | Even if you do claim you went up there to do him in ! |
| 19 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 20 | She stood up quickly to answer it . |
| 21 | And , on the day itself , we turned up early to sort out the club . |
| 22 | We go up there to get cheap cigarettes , petrol and groceries . ’ |
| 23 | So when we come up here to make a presentation let's put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about ? |
| 24 | ‘ Then after the war , Disney and Reagan , he was running the Screen Actors Guild , they ganged up together to feed names to the McCarthy Committee … ’ |
| 25 | they sweep up tidily to pass the time |
| 26 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 27 | It was women they wanted up there to spread some common sense among them . |
| 28 | It was important enough to make me come up here to ask Dr Bailey about Christabel LaMotte . ’ |
| 29 | He sits up straight to do up the buttons or velcro fastenings . |
| 30 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |