Example sentences of "[vb past] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 2 | In victory , Major sidled up to the MPs who voted for his rivals , including one-nation characters such as Chris Patten , Kenneth Clarke and William Waldegrave , who had rallied to the reassuring establishment figure of the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 3 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 4 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 5 | When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ? |
| 6 | The keeper called , ‘ Sue , Sue — come here , ’ and a young leopard came up to the bars and rubbed herself against them while he stroked her back . |
| 7 | She saw Adam kneeling erect and motionless , his face turned up to the chains ; his eyes were closed , and fire burned clear and transparent all round him . |
| 8 | Librarians in the USA faced up to the problems rather earlier , and there is some literature offering guidance from the late 1970s . |
| 9 | And there was Gabriel , sitting on the stairs that led up to the bedrooms . |
| 10 | She paid the taxi-driver and walked briskly towards the main entrance of the building , slowing her pace as she reached the flight of broad stone steps that led up to the doors . |
| 11 | For one night at least , one member of the quartet who hijacked the course of popular music lived up to the hopes of those who had waited 23 years for the moment . |
| 12 | A bottle of house red lived up to the expectations predicted by the standard of the food — rich and fruity and not recommended for those driving home . |
| 13 | In a well-publicised match in February , Short defeated Dutch Grandmaster Jan Timman in a contest that lived up to the expectations for hard fought games . |
| 14 | We rode under another arch , guarded by serjeants-at-arms wearing the royal arms of England ; great iron gates were flung open and we passed through these into the inner bailey , stopping before the great four-towered keep which soared up to the skies . |
| 15 | Deciding she was crazy , she made her way back to her room , collected her things and was just about to leave when a man carrying a young boy walked up to the doors . |
| 16 | That lunchtime we walked up to the shops . |
| 17 | Right on cue , a butterfly flew up to the plants we were looking at and landed ! |
| 18 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 19 | When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there . |
| 20 | The priest came through the sacristy door in soutane and surplice and Moran went up to the rails . |
| 21 | A beach of bleached stones gleamed bonewhite against the long stretch of grassy bank which rolled up to the pastures lining the valley floor . |
| 22 | The charge hardly paused , however , and swarmed up to the gates in a rush . |
| 23 | He looked up to the windows of Rose 's flat . |
| 24 | I looked up to the skies for no reason I can now remember , probably a spot of rain or a ray of sunshine . |
| 25 | Then , in my mind , I reached up to the heavens , held out my hands , grasped the ball and brought it down . |
| 26 | As her opening music rang out , she ran up to the wings , her spirits considerably buoyed up by knowing her father was in the audience , and by the fact that she 'd felt a tiny but unmistakable buzz of excitement on hearing those familiar chords . |
| 27 | Kee ran up to the men and said , ‘ What 's happening ? |
| 28 | In particular , Manuela , the girl who had wiped the word maricone from the blackboard , stood up to the rowdies and lashed them with her tongue . |
| 29 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 30 | He swept up to the gates of the converted Flax Wharf warehouse and sounded the horn . |