Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And others who ring up just to talk , and they feel much better , and they cry and they get distressed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We go up there to get cheap cigarettes , petrol and groceries . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | they sweep up tidily to pass the time |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |