Example sentences of "up [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled my boat near to the ship , then stood up to see through the cabin window . |
| 2 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
| 3 | No drive , no ambition ; the team was just turning up to go through the motions ; and behind the scenes , lots of devious insider stuff . ’ |
| 4 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 5 | I like all this and that bit but she has er , you end up to go on the dirty little foxes and you get on and there 's so , runny nosed yobbo kid about twelve , gets on |
| 6 | Yeah but they were all fixed up to go into the same envelope sort of thing . |
| 7 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 8 | This was the origin of the myth that workers had to put their hands up to go to the lavatory . |
| 9 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 10 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 11 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 12 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 13 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 14 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 15 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 16 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 17 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 18 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 19 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 20 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 21 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 22 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 23 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 24 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 25 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 26 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 27 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 28 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 29 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 30 | We 're asking that you test the temperature of your politicians that offer themselves up to stand on the councils , and we believe that being a good environmentalist aids all of their political life and er saving the environment now will save money in the future . |