Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 2 | You 're running up to the thing , yeah ? |
| 3 | Well first time , first time you 're coming up to the supermarket , drop it , drop them in |
| 4 | Now America is the hottest market ; institutions that find Wall Street overvalued are waking up to the attraction of overseas investment . |
| 5 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 6 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 7 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 8 | Well I 'll , I 'm going up to the vet so I 'll leave it running when we 're in the vet . |
| 9 | ‘ So he 'll be popping up to the palace with the rest of them , to pick up his medals . ’ |
| 10 | The CIT 's members are standing up to the recession and keeping close to their customers and associates . |
| 11 | Were going up to the test match at the Oval , Clive likes that . |
| 12 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 13 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 14 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 15 | The paper is going up to the Library Advisory Committee with a request for suggestions for cuts , and I enclose a copy of the last page with its summary for your information . |
| 16 | The gallery 's present director , Nicholas Serota , is facing up to the fact that today , excluding the Turners , only one-fifth of the collections can be on display at any time . |
| 17 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 18 | In her paradoxical way , the anorexic is facing up to the truth implicit in her own convictions . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's coming up to the boil , I would say , ’ said Ramses , ‘ coming up to the boil . ’ |
| 20 | Conoca said : ‘ A leak has developed inside one well of the unmanned platform and gas is leaking up to the surface . |
| 21 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 22 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 23 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 24 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 25 | Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral . |
| 26 | And his finger was pointing up to the ceiling . |
| 27 | The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through . |
| 28 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 29 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 30 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |