Example sentences of "up [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 2 | On suddenly realising he is dreaming , he may try to wake up only to find that his body seems paralysed . |
| 3 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 4 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 5 | A lady come up yesterday to see if I would do it . |
| 6 | There 's a lingering smell of machine oil in the room , and I see that Victor got up early to strip and clean his gun . |
| 7 | Well it 's in it it we have enough assignments up here to consider that that 's probably right . |
| 8 | SHOULD Des O'Connor have suffered sleepless nights wondering whether he will wake up tomorrow to discover that Ken Dodd has become Lord Dodd , I have some words of consolation . |
| 9 | ‘ We played a sweeper system up there to try and nullify Dean Saunders ’ pace and Dalian Atkinson 's flick-ons , and it worked well for us , ’ Gunn said . |
| 10 | In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 11 | Marginal land had to be given up either to waste or to sheep and cattle , since it was no longer profitable to plough it . |
| 12 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 13 | Started ringing up again to see if sort it out . |
| 14 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 15 | They are never brought up again to taunt or accuse us . |
| 16 | ‘ My husband collapsed on the lawn outside , but got up again to try and save our dogs from the side of the house . ’ |