Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] up to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 2 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 3 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 4 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 5 | ‘ I am sorry to interrupt your cosy chat , Martin , but Daddy 's dying to go up to the bar for a drink and we 've promised to stop by Carolyn Roach 's house later on . ’ |
| 6 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 7 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 8 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 9 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 10 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 11 | When a cut has to extend up to a wall , for example , the sole plate can be moved back , out of the way , by turning just one central screw . |
| 12 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 13 | When safely across the river , remembering of course to unclip your lifeline , take off the safety helmet , undo your life jacket , and slip out of the survival suit , the route passes beneath the splendid waterfall and starts to climb up to An Gearanach , not marked by name on the ordnance survey map . |
| 14 | ‘ I really ought to try to get up to the farm to fetch our Carrie down . ’ |
| 15 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 16 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 17 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 19 | I 'd like to go up to the house . |
| 20 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 21 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 22 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 23 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 24 | A : Well , I suppose I would — that would be the ideal situation , but I think you 've got to face up to the reality of the whole thing . |
| 25 | The hearing , expected to last up to a fortnight , is into the deaths of brothers Michael Gerard Hart , 29 , and Martin Joseph Hart , 23 , and their brother-in-law Brian Mullin , 26 , all from the Sixmilecross area of Co Tyrone . |
| 26 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 27 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 28 | I like to wake up to a cup of Assam , a very robust tea , or a strong blend of African and Indian teas of the type that makes a good English breakfast blend ; in the evening I prefer to drink Keemun or Lapsang Souchong . |
| 29 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 30 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |