Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [pron] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | BILL Clinton criss-crossed America yesterday , looking every inch a winner and living up to his promise to ‘ burn up ’ the last 48 hours of his presidential campaign . |
| 2 | Halfway down the valley , climb up to your left to the top of Stake Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 3 | Gregor Mendel , a contemporary of Darwin 's , and the head of a monastery in Moravia , had been trained in the physical sciences , and this training shows up in his approach to heredity . |
| 4 | The force of the block sends the attacker spinning around , and frequently he ends up with his back to the defender , thus presenting the defender with a perfect opportunity to deliver a counter-strike to the kidneys , a vulnerable area unprotected by bone . |
| 5 | With devastating confidence , he thrust his finger deep into her molten heat , then raked his fingers back up across her stomach to her breasts with a convulsive , possessive , shuddering movement which triggered a huge surge of longing inside her , so strong she felt dizzy . |
| 6 | Two monster pals met up on their way to the school one morning . |
| 7 | It looked , in that half-light , like a big framed picture , propped up with its face to the wall . |
| 8 | There is , of course , a major difference between people who hold most of their wealth in land , or stocks and shares and government bonds , or even gold , compared with those whose ‘ wealth ’ is predominantly bound up in their right to an occupational or state pension . |
| 9 | Inside , it felt so phoney that the merest glimmer of amusement would have sent an embarrassed blush swirling up from her neck to her forehead . |
| 10 | We walked back to our rooms and packed up for our move to Nîmes . |
| 11 | With lungs clutching for oxygen , we looked up from our darkness to the glittering peaks of Kanchenjunga , Sikkim 's holy mountain , sparkling in the early sunrise . |
| 12 | We used to get beaten up on our way to and from school . |
| 13 | Janine came into the kitchen dressed up for her trip to the hairdresser 's . |
| 14 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 15 | However , I was held up on my way to the airport by heavy rain and I missed the plane . |