Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 2 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 3 | We can never be a hundred per cent sure with security , we are , it is a public building , we do encourage er patients and their relatives to come up on to the children 's wards as part of the treatment er to make it a much more homely atmosphere . |
| 4 | He was shaking hands now with the woman , who was the exact antithesis of her niece , being thin and bony ; even her arms , showing bare where she had her sleeves rolled up almost to the armpits , looked fleshless . |
| 5 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 6 | But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field . |
| 7 | As we speed nearer and nearer , I hunch up closer to the windscreen to see every poignant detail of its last few seconds . |
| 8 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |
| 10 | Er , yorkshire pudding I mix up exactly to the book you know and I just realized the er er what they call it now , the bonus |
| 11 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 12 | The car reels and swerves up on to the pavement , crashing into a shopfront and shattering itself and the window panes . |
| 13 | Moving as quietly and gently as she could to avoid scaring the budgie away , Penny climbed up on to the fence and then , by way of various branches , up the tree . |
| 14 | She climbed up on to the Magician 's shoe . |
| 15 | When she came out leading Violet by the bridle , she went over to the mounting block and climbed up on to the horse . |
| 16 | He climbed up on to the platform . |
| 17 | At Ladbroke Grove a boy called Dean Miller , whom the rest of them knew and had teamed up with on the platform at Royal Oak , opened the door at the end of the car and climbed up on to the roof . |
| 18 | He climbed up on to the Reeve 's Way and followed it northwards into Goughdale . |
| 19 | Wu Tsai shrugged , and climbed up on to the bank . |
| 20 | The child looked at her and climbed up on to the seat . |
| 21 | She climbed up on to the rickety driving platform , which had been made by tying a plank across the cab . |
| 22 | There were people , people everywhere — huddled inside doorways trying to keep dry , crowding into the small , old-fashioned shops , and buying fruit and vegetables at bargain prices from the swarthy hawkers whose barrows were drawn up close to the kerb . |
| 23 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 24 | All kinds of signals going up there to the score board . |
| 25 | She was very disappointed , but faced up bravely to the situation . |
| 26 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 27 | Many birds die and individuals are washed up on to the shore . |
| 28 | Reverse it for the bottom lashes — look up in to the mirror about your forehead . |
| 29 | The Association did not achieve much in the way of concrete results but the reports stand up well to the passage of time . |
| 30 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |