Example sentences of "come [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 2 | She was warm , deliciously warm , all over , for the first time since leaving Scotland , and when she had arrived , but an hour before , she had come straight up to Aunt Emily 's room with no injunctions to change her boots or smooth her hair , and been given a tray of tea and toast cut into little fingers and tiny biscuits flavoured with almond . |
| 3 | And I think he meant , and I say this quite fair now , I think he meant to come straight up to me and brake suddenly to frighten me . |
| 4 | So we sat down to rest while Long John came slowly up to us . |
| 5 | Before the construction of the Promenade here , in 1903 , the sands came right up to the tram track , as seen in this view of a Dreadnought approaching the terminus . |
| 6 | Instead of sitting on the benches he came right up to Minch 's cage and stared into its emptiness for a long time . |
| 7 | One came right up to my face , so I pulled out my sword and cut open his stomach . |
| 8 | It was even more frightening than the chugging , and it came right up to the shelter door . |
| 9 | The lane from Bishopstow village came right up to the drive gates and ended there between stone gateposts crowned with lichened pineapples . |
| 10 | He came right up to the desk , towering over her , despite the solid barrier of wood . |
| 11 | He came quickly up to me and said , ‘ Give me your camera . ’ |
| 12 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 13 | One of the men came straight up to me and grabbed the kids . |
| 14 | The three came straight up to him . |
| 15 | He came straight up to the open window and smiled . |
| 16 | The sergeant came straight up to me and said : " Sentry you were asleep . |
| 17 | A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window . |
| 18 | The meal came well up to expectations and the wine he selected made the blood course through Sophie 's veins . |
| 19 | The trees and undergrowth came almost up to the house . |
| 20 | The only things worth saving were a mulberry , a cherry plum and the Magnolia grandiflora which at the time came barely up to the window and is now heading for the roof . |
| 21 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 22 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 23 | The Berry-Hill Gallery , in recent years Vicente 's New York dealer , has arranged a ninetieth birthday celebration for Vicente this month in the form of a retrospective spanning five decades of his work and coming right up to and into the Nineties . |
| 24 | Luke taunted softly , coming right up to the desk behind which she stood , having risen instinctively when Penny had told her he was here — a betrayal , she knew , but she could not have faced him sitting down . |
| 25 | ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position … |
| 26 | It 'd mean waiting till , often till the , the father came back from work and then he 'd have to er sometimes come right up to the er to the nursing home er to tell you that , that they was , that she was in labour and would we please come . |
| 27 | And these were put on and then one after the other would put onto the van and they would come right up to this height . |
| 28 | Come right up to the right up to bar really are n't you ? |
| 29 | His comments come as up to eight million parents across England and Wales are being balloted on the topic of National Curriculum tests . |
| 30 | The second part , which comes right up to the 1980s , will be international in character and recently acquired works by Fontana , Schnabel , Newman , Kelly , Gordillo and Navarro will be exhibited . |