Example sentences of "up [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Suddenly there was this tremendous roar , and we looked up to see a mass of snow and rocks rolling down a gully . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was n't brought up to see a woman like that and therefore it was an unholy , appalling state of affairs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … ‘ |
| 11 | There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , let's not harp back to the war , Daddy , ’ Madeleine said as she reached up to plant a kiss on his cheek . |
| 13 | There will be no question of a visitor turning up to find a hotel half built . |
| 14 | At the beginning of our second week in Corfu , I woke up to find a lump beneath my left arm the size of a pigeon 's egg and two smaller ones running into my breast . |
| 15 | Chairman Sir Anthony Tennant rightly predicted that many of us would be too hard up to stand a round of drinks in the pub anymore — but that we 'd still fancy a cheap tipple at home . |
| 16 | He had become an Untouchable , Trent thought with sudden bitterness as he glanced up to catch a look , almost of horror , on Mariana 's face . |
| 17 | He looked right whatever he wore , so handsome that girls stood up to catch a glimpse of him when he walked into a café . |
| 18 | The data base is to be housed at the Norwich Community Workshop , a co-operative set up to provide a centre for a variety of activities , including research on the local economy . |
| 19 | — A six-month pilot scheme is being set up to provide a drop-in facility at Redcar Health Centre , Coatham Road , Redcar . |
| 20 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 21 | Horse boxes and cars were already driving off as Trace Coley , looking sexy in her father 's Panama , sauntered up to receive a body brush and a blue rosette as one of the runners-up in the Jack Gannon . |
| 22 | This sort of work frequently benefits from being set up to create a triangle , so that each group has some relationship with the other two , each group needs and services the other two . |
| 23 | The Tajik regime did not last for long : it was opposed by Pathans , and the latter rose up to install a regime that lasted , with some changes at the top , till the communist seizure of power in 1978 . |
| 24 | ‘ We would do well to learn from them , ’ Wei Feng said , reaching up to pick a leaf from the branch . |
| 25 | It was got up to resemble a jungle , with prints of animals and birds on the walls , mosquito netting draped around , all in shades of khaki and saffron . |
| 26 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 27 | Some say the lion was set up to celebrate a victory over the Venetians — although that seems barely credible , a defeated , down-trodden beast being the more usual symbol for a defeated enemy — others that it simply marks the position of the old eastern gate , through which travellers to and from Venice would go . |
| 28 | Canteen antagonisms … getting heavily antagonized while you 're queuing up to purchase a doughnut . |
| 29 | ‘ Quite often I write songs in my head , ’ he claims , before getting up to answer a phone call from Brett , looking to arrange rehearsal times . |
| 30 | One absent-minded hand moved up to scratch a breast . |