Example sentences of "he [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 2 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 3 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 4 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
| 5 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 6 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 7 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 8 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 9 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 10 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 11 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 12 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 13 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 14 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 15 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 16 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun . |
| 18 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 19 | He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey . |
| 20 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 21 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 22 | He came up to the Hilder at the point where the aqueduct pillars crossed it . |
| 23 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 24 | What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his . |
| 25 | He woke up to the nauseating smell of burning skin and a roaring sound . |
| 26 | All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination . |
| 27 | Accordingly , as he leads up to the day of Pentecost , Luke is at greatest pains to maintain that the Spirit , who equipped Jesus for his mission , equips the disciples to carry it on . |
| 28 | He faced up to the notorious Chelsea Boot Boys with an electrified fence but was refused permission to switch it on . |
| 29 | Using a special pedal-extension device , he faced up to the suddenly enormous-looking Steinway in something of a David and Goliath meeting , and triumphed . |
| 30 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |