Example sentences of "up to go [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 5 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 6 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 7 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 8 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 12 | This was the origin of the myth that workers had to put their hands up to go to the lavatory . |
| 13 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 14 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 15 | 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 . |