Example sentences of "[vb past] up to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 2 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 3 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 4 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 5 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 6 | But Nick said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , ’ and went up to him as if it were the easiest and most natural thing in the world . |
| 7 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 8 | For my father 's part , he accepted Jane 's presence without question ; and she had consideration for his duodenal ulcer , and looked up to him as head of the household , and fitted in like the rest of us . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's a really big man , both physically and in terms of his character , and I really looked up to him as a tower of strength when we were doing Neighbours . ’ |
| 10 | Ko Nu was elected President of the University Students ' Union ; the students looked up to him as their mentor . |
| 11 | Aung San awakened a martial spirit amongst the Burmans , and the young men looked up to him with intense loyalty . |
| 12 | So we looked up to him like that . |
| 13 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |