Example sentences of "[vb past] up [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | City 's leaders caused Steve Hudsbeth whose tally of goals kept pace with their beaten run , stepped up to take the kick , only to see his effort go outside . |
| 32 | Phillip Mitchell stepped up to ram the spot kick home and then capped a fine individual performance with his second and his side 's third with a powerful strike from the edge of the area . |
| 33 | Crooks signed up to enjoy the benefits of corruption and to lend their power . |
| 34 | Spurts of flame began to flicker here and there and presently leapt up to redden the fringes of the great smoke cloud which hung above them .... |
| 35 | He leapt up to take the mug from her shaking hand . |
| 36 | He leapt up to discover the truth . |
| 37 | The quills stood in its funnel and the lid of the ‘ boiler ’ hinged up to reveal the ink well . |
| 38 | No , I rang up to say the car should be out on Monday should I like to say Wednesday , no problem . |
| 39 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
| 40 | She did this every evening , and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter . |
| 41 | Rosalie Ray did this every evening , and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter . |
| 42 | One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first . |
| 43 | He was born in abject poverty with a family history of madness , yet grew up to take the world by storm . |
| 44 | Peter grew up to know the value of money , and was taught by his caring , careful parents to save and be prudent in financial matters , and cautious of whom to trust in business . |
| 45 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 46 | We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur . |
| 47 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 48 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 49 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 50 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 51 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 52 | Mr Cottle looked up to acknowledge the reaction to this information , but at once looked down again when he saw Mungo and Emily grinning at each other . |
| 53 | He stopped in front of the two men , fingered the white bandage around his forehead , and looked up to scan the crowd anxiously . |
| 54 | Their billycock hats were in their hands , twisted out of shape by nervous fingers , and neither man looked up to meet the marquis 's eyes . |
| 55 | Sweetheart reached up to touch the ice-cream lady 's arm . |
| 56 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 57 | Even from this distance she could see the way muscles rippled across his chest as he reached up to unlock the window , the wedge of dark hair that arrowed down from his collar-bone , and she felt heat run along her veins . |
| 58 | He laughed , then reached up to cut the flow . |
| 59 | He laughed , ahead of her , and reached up to find the button . |
| 60 | The surprise came when IBM immediately leaped up to deny the reports . |