Example sentences of "[verb] up to an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it all adds up to an impressive document . ’ |
| 2 | It all adds up to an awesome task , but , come what may , the ‘ Buns ’ are determined to enjoy themselves and , in the words of secretary Allen Morris , ‘ savour the moment . ’ |
| 3 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 4 | It all adds up to an exotic holiday of pure Turkish Delight . |
| 5 | Some devices for keeping costs low are employed and these can , where required , provide up to an extra 20% of expenditure : a popular ploy is to purchase stationery in advance and then resell it cheaply to the candidate as second-hand stock . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
| 7 | It added up to an emphatic win by 137 runs , in the first of the tourists ' warm-up matches before Sunday 's opening Nehru Cup match against Sri Lanka . |
| 8 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 9 | PSD itself will then provide up to an additional £8.50 per week towards excess travelling costs . |
| 10 | The lovely oriel windows , the shapely gables , the cobbled streets , the carved doorways , the murals and frescoes , all add up to an artistic totality . |
| 11 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
| 12 | During negotiations leading up to an economic transaction , choice theories insist that no legal obligations should arise since the parties have not yet reached an agreement . |
| 13 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 14 | The US economy grew by over 2 per cent last year , with growth in the final quarter revised up to an annual rate of 4.75 per cent . |
| 15 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 16 | ‘ He was 'ere making up to an honest travellin' lass . ’ |
| 17 | Without the roots of extensive planning ‘ these developments did not add up to an articulate challenge to the restoration of bourgeois rule in Japan ’ ( Armstrong , Glynn and Harrison 1984 p.39 ) . |
| 18 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 19 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 20 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
| 21 | A sleeping porcelain doll wired up to an intravenous drip . |
| 22 | Subject to the conditions of the scheme , an employee may be paid up to an approved maximum for loss or damage to personal effects . |
| 23 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |