Example sentences of "up [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled my boat near to the ship , then stood up to see through the cabin window . |
| 2 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 3 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 4 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 5 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 6 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 7 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 8 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 9 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 10 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 11 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 12 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 13 | This was the origin of the myth that workers had to put their hands up to go to the lavatory . |
| 14 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 15 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 16 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 17 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 18 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 19 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 20 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 21 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 22 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 23 | A dark , cowled figure came in and went up to stand in the Lady Chapel . |
| 24 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 25 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 26 | He smiled slowly at her , standing up to come round the table and pull her gently to her feet and into his arms . |
| 27 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course it damn well hurts ! ’ she shouted , tears welling up to mingle with the rain . |
| 29 | Women suffer from male-dominated ideas about sexual attractiveness , being brought up to conform to the idea that they should be sexually attractive to men , and that sexual attractiveness is associated with the youthful , attractive bodies of the pin-up . |
| 30 | She ran up to listen at the bedroom door again . |