Example sentences of "come up to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 2 | She had put on her hat and coat and was about to leave when he came up to her with two bunches of violets , so that she was able to press the cigarettes into his hand while taking the flowers from him . |
| 3 | A woman with red , radiant , curly hair came up to her in her misery and said : ‘ It 's all right . |
| 4 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 5 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 6 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 7 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 8 | At this moment about 11 people came up to me with two dogs . |
| 9 | When I began to be seen around camp with a new face , I was subjected to a lot of nudging and winking from those who did n't know the facts , and people came up to me with knowing smiles on their faces , saying , ‘ I see you 've got a new boyfriend ! |
| 10 | People came up to me with glowing faces and said , Was n't it wonderful ? |
| 11 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 12 | An elderly man whom I had never met before came up to me to offer help . |
| 13 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 14 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 15 | ‘ It was because kids at Thornaby came up to me in barefeet that I became a socialist , ’ she says . |
| 16 | One kid in my neighbourhood , a Blood , came up to me after seeing this movie and he said , ‘ I 'm gon na go home and tell my mother she better not call me a motherfucker anymore . ’ |
| 17 | But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak . |
| 18 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 19 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 20 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 21 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 22 | She could n't see the number from where she was , so she stole through the undergrowth and came up to it from behind . |
| 23 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 24 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 25 | I remember a man coming up to me at Sandhurst and looking at the back of my hair and saying , ‘ What regiment are you going into ? ’ and I said ‘ The Grenadiers , ’ and he said ‘ You appear to be growing your own bear skin . ’ |
| 26 | Olive , when she was sharing the night with me , had the habit of coming up to me about 7.30pm and saying in a sympathetic voice , ‘ You do look tired ! |
| 27 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 28 | There was a fellow came up to me in Lime Street and said : ‘ Hey , get me a taxi . |
| 29 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 30 | At the end of the lesson you can come up to me with your questions if you have any and I shall try to help you . |