Sentence examples for up to checkpoint from inspiring English sources

On the day of the big smuggle there weren't any small cars available so they gave me an enormous Mercedes for the same price and I rolled up to Checkpoint Charlie.

I recall haltingly walking up to Checkpoint Charlie and seeing sie verlassen den amerikanischen sektor (“You are leaving the American sector”).

Two attackers drove their car, loaded with bombs, up to the checkpoint.

Mali officials said the bomber drove up to the checkpoint on a motorbike at around 6am.

We pulled up to the checkpoint just minutes after the minister of vice and virtue, Nooruddin Turabi, got there.

In those days, you could walk up to a checkpoint, pay a bribe and get into a car, Tehran-bound.

"ok so latest is that a vehicle pulled up to a checkpoint near munuki roundabout, refused to stop, and two were killed," one friend wrote.

As a dust storm settled over Baghdad on that Sunday, the son of an Adhamiya council leader drove his Mercedes up to a checkpoint staffed by Awakening guards.

The checkpoint was crowded with civilians who were fleeing the area, and the vehicle, apparently driven by an Islamic militant, managed to mingle with the fleeing Kurds and pull up to the checkpoint, which was manned by secular Kurdish fighters.

Mr. Armush said that the soldiers had refused to talk with him when he drove his engine up to a checkpoint just below the hospital, which was defended by a tank and an armored personnel carrier.

At around 3pm, a man toting a gun walked up to a checkpoint near the White House and ignored uniformed Secret Service officers' orders to drop the weapon.