Example sentences of "[vb past] up to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 2 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 3 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 4 | A few moments later , however , a taxi drew up to the kerb and he thrust his golden head out of the window . |
| 5 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 6 | Then Henrietta and Samantha charged up to the tower , with Jacqueline stumbling after them , to quarrel about their bedrooms . |
| 7 | He was still in the middle of the road when the horses thundered up to the inn . |
| 8 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 9 | Somehow , she 'd have to end it before they moved up to the room , or the suite , or whatever Charlie 's contact had lined up for them . |
| 10 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 11 | Alec moved up to the plane and ran a loving hand along its polished propeller blade . |
| 12 | She shouted up to the coachman , ‘ Make sure you take care of her ! |
| 13 | Lavinia and Edward , the only married couple in the play , are quarrelling ( he had once again delineated the woes of marriage ) : " Eliot bolted up to the stage looking quite unsettled . |
| 14 | The group then undertook local information meetings which built up to the campaign 's first large public meeting in Letterfrack , Co . |
| 15 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I fled up to the tree-house for my knitting but a branch gave way as I grabbed it and I was pitched into the river . |
| 18 | She scuffed up to the altar in her carpet slippers , and stood next to Clare , with the ill-tempered , tight-lipped expression she always adopted when in church or in the presence of the clergy . |
| 19 | His eyes — matt like those of a dead fish on the slab — flickered up to the bone china model of a Suffolk Punch above their heads , the bright colours making the creature appear unearthly . |
| 20 | She could tell by the insignia of his uniform that he did n't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall whose tents were visible at the far end of the park when she cycled up to the house . |
| 21 | As they trudged up to the top of a sand-dune , Seal Sands Lock was there below them . |
| 22 | Well we , we had about sixty erm , people that trudged up to the top of the hill including erm , one who did n't know there was a wedding , he was a runner , and then he |
| 23 | Her lips set mutinously , she trudged up to the bathroom . |
| 24 | I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire . |
| 25 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , West Indies dominated these , winning seventeen of the first twenty-two played up to the end of 1985–6 . |
| 27 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 28 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 29 | Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk . |
| 30 | Newman climbed out of the car , locked it , strolled up to the entrance to the house . |