Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 2 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 3 | Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside . |
| 4 | To the rear of the house , the lawn surrounded by herbaceous borders leads up to a meadow and copse which is bordered by the northern boundary of the forest . |
| 5 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 6 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 7 | Rodo screamed as the light surged up to a brilliance that stung his eyes . |
| 8 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 9 | THE STAGE is a backyard bounded by a palisade of rusty corrugated iron ; two ladders lead up to a balcony , a tap drips into a can . |
| 10 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 11 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 12 | And if that was the case , then the idea for Artemis to move up to a horse must surely have sprung from him . |
| 13 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 14 | Finally , when the stream dried up to a dribble , she popped the man 's wet dick in her mouth to savour the last few drops . |
| 15 | The slipstream built up to a scream , and despair drugged his actions . |
| 16 | No woman feels her best during the period leading up to a period . |
| 17 | The food , the truckloads of champagne , accommodation , fees for the gala stars and 800 musicians , and air fares for many of the guests add up to a bill of millions for the weekend . |
| 18 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 19 | If convicted , Pierce faces up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine , which Van Halen have offered to pay . |
| 20 | Harvey stepped up to a door marked ‘ Recreation ’ . |
| 21 | Every day , the wild birds on Swan Lake consume up to a quarter of a ton of wheat . |
| 22 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 23 | This will be immediately preceded by the dispatch from the tail-gate of the aircraft of a ‘ wedge ’ , a platform containing up to a ton of stores . |
| 24 | Unless the horse is very sick or the swelling is severely affecting eating or breathing , it is sometimes better to delay antibiotics until the abscesses come up to a head and burst . |
| 25 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 26 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 27 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 28 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 29 | Fruit grew on the compound : a few bananas , lemons , mangoes , pawpaw and avocado pears weighing up to a pound and a half . |
| 30 | SINGER Harry Connick Jr faces up to a year in jail after being found carrying an unlicensed gun as he tried to board a plane . |