Example sentences of "we [verb] up to the " in BNC.

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1 When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited .
2 After stops for punctures we got up to the snow .
3 but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet .
4 As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished .
5 I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’
6 Finally we drove up to the Clonmacnoise ruins .
7 After my men had rested we climbed up to the road , and set off on what proved to be a very long twenty-mile march to the forest Rest House at Haira Khan .
8 On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’
9 That lunchtime we walked up to the shops .
10 We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me .
11 But today when we finished up to the middle of th here .
12 Then we sent up to the Division — ‘ Will you check on this address ? ’ — comes back , ‘ Not known ’ .
13 " Shall we walk up to the house now ? "
14 We go up to the wheel base and Yeb is instantly recognised .
15 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
16 We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease .
17 We went up to the ward , by which time he was making very odd , rasping sounds as he breathed .
18 We went up to the safari park , to Evesham for fruit picking , to Redditch for shopping .
19 We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice .
20 well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ?
21 Yeah but as I say it 's the same as when you know we come over when we went up to the
22 We went up to the shop .
23 ‘ Ca n't we come up to the hill ? ’ asked someone .
24 ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment .
25 PC Kim Jordan , 35 , said : ‘ We crawled up to the landing .
26 We ran up to the firing range one morning to try out our destructive techniques for real .
27 So anyway we come up to the roundabout and she never .
28 Let us face up to the reality of these fears and face them in the power of the cross .
29 It appears that rather than allowing us to enter a realm of meditation and escapism so associated with abstraction these paintings are determined to make us face up to the ambiguities in our readings of the visual world .
30 Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women .
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