Example sentences of "up [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 2 | But you go to the middle of nowhere and Nicky would look up to see a black cloud on the horizon and ask what it was . |
| 3 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 4 | Suddenly the dogs scampered off , and she saw them jumping up to greet a dark figure . |
| 5 | Many disciplines can be called up to impart a critical perspective , and questions and strategies can be mounted which have use across a wide variety of courses of study . |
| 6 | Nearly 700 BP employees involved in the KG Ethylene Project turned up to enjoy a delicious grill and tasty menu specially prepared for the event . |
| 7 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 8 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 9 | She reached up to plant a light kiss on Dane 's mouth . |
| 10 | Theda gasped , glancing down at her hurting hand and back up to find a malevolent twist in the old lady 's wasted features . |
| 11 | If they turn up to discover a human housing estate instead of the expected hole in the ground , it must undoubtedly stress them . |
| 12 | Peggy rather hoped that Rosalind was not all dressed up to meet a new boy-friend , but with a letter going off to Richard it looked as if she were . |
| 13 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
| 14 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 15 | When putting the ring together I alternate the segments marked face up then plain face up to create a balanced pattern . |
| 16 | Operation Osprey has now been set up to tackle a fresh wave … a team of detectives are trying to establish a concrete link between the cases [ Craven is talking against a backcloth of computers ] . |
| 17 | Radio assault : A team from South Cleveland Hospital Radio are gearing themselves up to tackle a tough army assault course . |
| 18 | The company is at best ambivalent about the Network Printing Alliance however — yet another industry body set up to define a standard protocol , this time for distributed local network connected printers and personal computers . |
| 19 | But I live in fear of calling out the rescue team for a solitary figure glimpsed high on a darkening summit , only to find it 's Hamish McInnes nipping back up to fetch a dropped mitten . |
| 20 | The floaty , translucent , viscose jacket costs £195 ; the gathered skirt , with its lycra waistband which can be rolled up to form a strapless dress , is £169 , and the long overtop costs £105 . |
| 21 | Around the volcanic vent itself , a jumbled mass of highly irregular pumice fragments , most of them very large , piles up to form a conical heap round the vent . |
| 22 | When the string folds up to form a globular structure , however , the bonds are not covalent , and the resulting structure is flexible . |
| 23 | A project set up to generate a new product or process may be an in-house activity utilizing the company 's own staff and resources , or it may be contracted out to another organization . |
| 24 | In others the high cumulus is breaking up to give a lovely summer evening . |
| 25 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 26 | Even worse , opponents ' wives are turning up to keep a beady eye on proceedings . |
| 27 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 28 | In the early 1980s a government-funded Japanese project was set up to develop a fifth-generation computer . |
| 29 | One mother who beat cancer as a child and grew up to have a healthy daughter is Sally Scott . |
| 30 | An alternative is to have dentist and patient and make a joke of it , with the dental instruments being a hammer and a pair of pliers and the patient made up to have a large abscess . |