Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Stage three , marketing has moved up to a position of equality with sales . |
| 2 | It 's estimated the case trial has cost up to a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 3 | Lastly , windblown sand has accumulated up to a height of 150 metres , where rock-cored hills with gentle slopes lie close to beach or eroding dune areas which furnish a steady supply of sand . |
| 4 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 5 | Dozens of men with hand tools may have taken up to a year to dig out the brook banks and build arches and canal on top . |
| 6 | State grain reserves were opened in Anhui and Jiangsu while medical teams fought water-borne diseases such as dysentery and cholera , which were reported to have affected up to a quarter of the flood victims . |
| 7 | We 'd like to release Family as a joint effort with them , if we do n't get signed up to a record company first ! ’ |
| 8 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 9 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 10 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 11 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year for officers patrolling shops on Sundays . |
| 12 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year to monitor Sunday opening . |
| 13 | It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head . |
| 14 | As they entered the stable-yard , Tamar gasped with pleasure and ran forward to the mare , which stood tied up to a rail . |