Example sentences of "up [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 2 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 3 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 4 | When John hung a cupboard on small metal brackets , she insisted on climbing up to paint a trompe l'oeil over the brackets as camouflage . |
| 5 | Ingrid watched in amazement as the eggs disappeared as if they were being sucked into quicksand , and looked up to see every man 's eyes riveted upon Ilse 's gaping crack . |
| 6 | The Chesterfield heirs never lived here ; they spurned Brizlincote , and its radial oak avenues and the formal gardens grew up to see no Stanhope carriages bowling down the drive . |
| 7 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 8 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 9 | Suddenly there was this tremendous roar , and we looked up to see a mass of snow and rocks rolling down a gully . |
| 10 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 11 | ‘ Wan na dance ? ’ a voice enquired and Sally looked up to see a boy in a velvet-collared jacket , drainpipes and crepe-soled shoes standing in front of her , a lick of greasy hair falling across a face shiny with perspiration . |
| 12 | As he clambered over the rocks , parting the scrub and the brambles to peer into crevices , he heard a droning throb overhead and looked up to see a helicopter . |
| 13 | He was n't brought up to see a woman like that and therefore it was an unholy , appalling state of affairs . |
| 14 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |
| 15 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 16 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 17 | We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur . |
| 18 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 19 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 20 | I get far enough up to see the house and identify it by its position and the garden furniture , then I climb back down , go to the wall and jump up , catching hold of the concrete ridge tiles on top of the wall and pulling myself up . |
| 21 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 22 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 23 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 24 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 25 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 26 | He had long deplored the grand opera house tradition of stars turning up to slot into ready-rehearsed productions , and recalled the awful theatre tale of a famous Lear/Hamlet/Othello turning up to greet a cast of strangers , saying ‘ Whatever you do , do n't get in my way … ‘ |
| 27 | A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures . |
| 28 | Kazakhstan 's President Nazarbayev , however , pointed out in an interview after the close of the summit that no executive or supervisory bodies had been set up to monitor the implementation of the agreements reached there . |
| 29 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 30 | Heaving up to gasp the air |