Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] up to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a rapidly-growing belief in Italy that Sampdoria are ready to part company with England defender Walker because he has not lived up to expectations since joining them last summer . |
| 2 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 3 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 4 | His party has now signed up to Mr. MacSharry and his basic philosophy . |
| 5 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 6 | On hearing of the don 's disappearance , she 'd naturally rushed up to Oxford in the hope of tracking down her precious notes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 9 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 10 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 11 | The speech of 26 April 1942 , held against the theatrical back-cloth of the summoning of the Reichstag , had not lived up to expectations . |
| 12 | Reality had not lived up to expectations . |
| 13 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 14 | Despite the fund-raisers ' best efforts there was no disguising the fact that Telethon '92 had n't lived up to expectations . |
| 15 | The price per set had however gone up to £6 . |
| 16 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 17 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 18 | Malone 's buys this summer looked like good ones but they have not lived up to expectations . |
| 19 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 20 | But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world . |
| 21 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |