Example sentences of "up to him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 3 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 4 | Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’ |
| 5 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's a really big man , both physically and in terms of his character , and I really looked up to him as a tower of strength when we were doing Neighbours . ’ |
| 7 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 8 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 9 | He replaced Michael Duane with his old friend , Peter Solowka , who was disillusioned with the jobs opened up to him by a degree in environmental biology . |
| 10 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 11 | But he gets very angry if they come up to him in a restaurant when he is eating or if he is busy talking to someone else , ’ says Marci . |
| 12 | Stuart 's Mum rushed up to him in a panic . |
| 13 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 16 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 17 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |
| 18 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |