Example sentences of "up to see the " in BNC.

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1 He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ .
2 All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest !
3 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 .
4 He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail .
5 He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him .
6 Are you staying up to see the New Year in ? ’
7 He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face .
8 I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored .
9 But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police .
10 Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head .
11 And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right .
12 Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years .
13 One Sunday my dad took us all up to see the new pit-head baths .
14 We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain .
15 We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur .
16 I get far enough up to see the house and identify it by its position and the garden furniture , then I climb back down , go to the wall and jump up , catching hold of the concrete ridge tiles on top of the wall and pulling myself up .
17 The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 We all turned up to see the mighty Linfield toss Bangor aside and we go and spoil the party .
21 He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume .
22 He probably will not sleep in the unlikely event of the ghost of mass murderess Mary Ann Cotton showing up to see the graves of her victims .
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