Example sentences of "up [adv] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wind people up just to see their reaction , ’ Ramsden said , confirming that Travelling Light was absolutely fine . |
| 2 | It was the same when The Who smashed their gear at the end : everyone would turn up just to see them smash their gear and it was n't cool , because everybody knew they were going to do it . |
| 3 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 4 | Before God , I 'd give them all up just to see her again , just to touch her ! |
| 5 | A lady come up yesterday to see if I would do it . |
| 6 | The morning after he had left his swimming things in the stolen Mini , when he had gone up early to see old Bones , he had found Nails fast asleep in the straw in the chestnut mare 's box . |
| 7 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 8 | That 's why I asked Sister if I could slip up here to see her . ’ |
| 9 | She could n't wait to wake up tomorrow to see what disaster that day would bring ! |
| 10 | ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see . |
| 11 | When the snow clears a little , I 'll drive you up there to see for yourself . |
| 12 | They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange . |
| 13 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 14 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 15 | And I mean I would n't I mean it 's no way , even Sid says I would n't drive all the way up there to see them . |
| 16 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 17 | Started ringing up again to see if sort it out . |