Example sentences of "[vb base] up [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 2 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |
| 3 | But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment . |
| 4 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 5 | 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 |