Example sentences of "just [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just building up to it cos it 's |
| 2 | No Canadian jokes , please , but doing this on the nation 's behalf just plays up to stereotypes . |
| 3 | This is what your teachers will try to tell you is true but they are just sucking up to you . |
| 4 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 5 | He just goes up to her cage and stands there , hardly even looking at her , and she quietens down quick as anything . ’ |
| 6 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 7 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 8 | I think they just sucked up to David , and began to put the boot in really , quite unnecessarily and unfairly . |
| 9 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 10 | Though what you should do is , is , just walk up to the ball , that line through there . |
| 11 | just came up to me and said erm , Can I be your partner ? |
| 12 | We just tie up to the Kilcharran , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 14 | We 're just going up to Eastgate Bike Shop to try and get a cable that just snapped |
| 15 | Similarly , some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns . |
| 16 | Could you just ring up to old Si and let him know I 've arrived ? ’ |
| 17 | just gets up to you about ten hours , right , next week in , from the heart . |
| 18 | I 'm just coming up to this shop when this girl stops me . |
| 19 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 20 | The time is just coming up to twenty-one minutes past seven o'clock . |
| 21 | So it 's just coming up to five to that 's okay . |
| 22 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 23 | Well , it , it 's just coming up to three , er , well done . |
| 24 | Those who are most likely to be affected by the Labour party 's proposals to surcharge savings are those who are just coming up to retirement . |
| 25 | Well , it 's just coming up to eleven o'clock , who have n't we heard from , er , right , you 've been very very quiet there . |
| 26 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 27 | It 's just coming up to twenty past three we 'll take fifteen minutes . |
| 28 | Just coming up to finishing this one here here 's your new one . |
| 29 | But this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and I 'm just coming up to a word I never can pronounce so you 're going to have to help me with this one . |
| 30 | Before we do before we do given that it 's just coming up to ten thirty could I ask somebody to propose suspension of standing orders . |