Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some kindly English Burma police were with us and whenever the boat tied up to the banks would slip ashore and bring back fruit for us . |
| 2 | Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks . |
| 3 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 4 | At the edge of the marshes four tall trees stretched up to the heavens . |
| 5 | Deep carpet covered the floors and the stairs swept up to the showrooms and the warren of workrooms beyond , and though the window drapes and furnishings were ever-so-slightly faded , as if they had seen better days , they were of the finest silks and velvets and every corner was swept , polished and cleaned daily so that no single speck of dust , let alone a cobweb , dared show itself . |
| 6 | You want your audience doped up to the eyeballs in feelgood factor . |