Example sentences of "he [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to . |
| 2 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 3 | ‘ Can I get him to come up to Rainbow , Nurse Charles , as soon as he 's finished ? ’ asked Juliet . |
| 4 | Now how do you get him to come up to you ? |
| 5 | In September of that year , he had taken a high line with Henry VIII , letting him trundle up to York only to gaze north at an empty road , for James , probably at the persuasion of his council , failed to keep his appointment with the English king . |
| 6 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 7 | She tried to look uninterested as she watched him go up to Helen and Edward , but when , after a minute or two , he turned and walked purposefully towards her , she knew a moment of near-panic . |
| 8 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 9 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
| 10 | The only snag in his life is everybody expects him to live up to his heart-throb image . |
| 11 | They called back Washbrook , now 41 , and told him to get up to Headingley with his bat and pads . |
| 12 | Several rucks at Elland Road confirmed Cantona 's previous billing as the enfant terrible , but French TV viewers saw him live up to his new label as Manchester United 's ‘ Gallic Gazza ’ after the striker burst into tears before an estimated 15 million audience . |
| 13 | Then feeling for the window-sill that was part way up , he knocked the owl lamp that his Mum had put there for him to take up to his room . |
| 14 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 15 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 16 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 17 | He plays up to them , producing shocking ideas and attitudes which he lets himself half believe . |
| 18 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 19 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 20 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 21 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 22 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 23 | Perhaps the doctor would n't mind giving me a lift that morning when he drives up to town . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 25 | I 'd just like to know what he got up to when he took his wig off , that 's all ! |
| 26 | Extracting information on what he got up to there is n't easy . |
| 27 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 28 | No matter what he got up to , Constance did n't want to see him damaged : it was the women she blamed , the tarts who ran after him . |
| 29 | The guy the train driver was better , when he got up to , he was brilliant |
| 30 | Yeah must of done , he got up to three weeks to move in |