Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 2 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 3 | In this situation you should gradually work up to the 20-minute target . |
| 4 | Reading a work 's introduction can be helpful , though even then content may not live up to the billing , so that a sampling of the text is also advised . |
| 5 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 6 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 7 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 8 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 9 | Probably I 'd just go up to the pub but I ca n't be bothered . |
| 10 | But she , she could bleeding dress up to the nines . |
| 11 | A new building could also face up to the logistical problems presented by so much contemporary art : vast canvases , dispersed installations , massive weights ( the Serra sculptures currently on show required the floor to be shored up ) , and ultra-sensitive materials . |
| 12 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 13 | As they sped back towards Wimbledon , Robert wondered why he still could n't own up to the lie that had started all this . |
| 14 | He promised himself he would not go up to the tower to observe the stars . |
| 15 | But she decided Daniel 's frail body would not stand up to the painful general anaesthetics and blocked the treatment . |
| 16 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 17 | But this would n't match up to the greatness of the Porfiry-Raskolnikov scenes . |
| 18 | They would n't add up to the sorts of things that we 've got . |
| 19 | More or less I think it went against the entries because the members just would n't turn up to the meetings . |
| 20 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 21 | I feel very inadequate if I ca n't live up to the standards that I have and I start to feel guilty as well . |
| 22 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 23 | Meredith was amazed that he could n't see that the old key would never stand up to the pressure he was putting on it . |
| 24 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 25 | I still pray for Gary and continue to hope that he will eventually live up to the professions of faith that he has made . |
| 26 | He will not face up to the problem . |
| 27 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
| 28 | Scholars , on the other hand , are all agog to see how these hitherto heavily obscured works will now measure up to the rest of Titian 's oeuvre . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're pathetic and obsessed and you wo n't face up to the truth that Eddie was never good enough to make the jump into Formula One ! |
| 30 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |