Example sentences of "[pron] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where was I up to ? |
| 2 | Surprisingly Ace held his up to her in a mock toast . |
| 3 | It 's the same size as yours up to the wardrobe and up to the door . |
| 4 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 5 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 6 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 7 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 8 | He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net . |
| 9 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 10 | He proclaimed triumphantly , pulling himself up to his full five foot six inches , his face aglow . |
| 11 | Then pulling himself up to a great height , he went on . |
| 12 | The Junior Minister pulled himself up to his full height of five foot three , and in a plummy voice rich with haughty disdain said , ‘ What difference does that make ? ’ |
| 13 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 14 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 15 | It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day — and in a car without a telephone . |
| 16 | AN America banker , accused of embezzling $13m and sparking a financial crisis in the state of Rhode Island , yesterday gave himself up to the authorities . |
| 17 | He used the footholds at first until shelf twenty-seven then pulled himself up to sixty-nine with the rope . |
| 18 | Tell Russell to give himself up to the police and when they have dealt with him , Mr Christie , I am going to shoot him . ’ |
| 19 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 20 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 21 | He later gave himself up to police . |
| 22 | King Vidor , who directed him in Man Without a Star in 1955 , said , ‘ I felt throughout the filming that Kirk was working himself up to being a director . |
| 23 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 24 | Martin had pulled himself up to his feet now and he held on to the back of the chair as he nodded at her , then watched her go towards the door . |
| 25 | Connolly gave himself up to the police and was charged with damage to the cell amounting to ten shillings . |
| 26 | Sensing that he had the attention of the warriors the flagellant pulled himself up to his full height . |
| 27 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 28 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 29 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 30 | When stepping forth with an idea , an individual may open himself up to personal rejection . |