Example sentences of "up to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one unbelievable moment Merrill wondered if he was leading up to suggesting they go together . |
| 2 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 3 | Another British merchant bank , Kleinwort Benson , owned up to writing off loans totalling $23m which it had sunk into an American partnership controlled by one of its directors . |
| 4 | The unit was featured on BBC2 's Gardeners World , and Brian is fully geared up to meeting demand for the new pond season . |
| 5 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 6 | ‘ I do hope you 're not working up to telling me that you wo n't be able to pay me what I 'm due ? |
| 7 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 8 | The worst part was wrestling through the urban traffic , knowing that it was coming up to sailing time . |
| 9 | ‘ But some parents find that their child 's school is not up to catering for children with special needs . |
| 10 | The manifestation of the sex beast in florid form does not happen very often in the media , but the coverage is consistently geared up to sponsoring the arrival of the sex fiend on the national scene . |
| 11 | Well this is the risk you have to take but er , and it 's a , it 's a profit at this stage where er people are coming up to receiving lump sums in retirement and wonder how best to invest it , well seems to me there 's no better investment than to , than to put it into tax free sources that you have available to you . |
| 12 | I was certainly not up to breaking the law . |
| 13 | I watch him at PAs and he 'll go up to screaming girls and undo his tunic and twist his nipple right in a girl 's face . |
| 14 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
| 15 | The new timetables will relate to the overall periods up to setting down for trial . |
| 16 | In the mother church gaps may be left in all departments from Sunday Schools to sweeping up to speaking in tongues and interpreting . |
| 17 | His mind was n't up to speaking one line while listening to another , and at the same time trying to remember the next move . |
| 18 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 19 | That 's up to depends on what happens really . |
| 20 | ‘ You feel up to facing a wedding reception ? |
| 21 | ‘ So I suppose she wo n't feel up to taking that creature out in the morning . |
| 22 | Now a podgy , desperately unfit bar-fly , he simply was n't up to taking on the Man of Action role that he craved . |
| 23 | That boy will do anything for me , even up to getting himself killed by a lion . |
| 24 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 25 | How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ? |
| 26 | Facing up to recycling targets |
| 27 | The run up to calving may coincide with very low food intakes leading to low birth weights ( undersized offspring have lower survival rates ) , low milk output of low quality and low mothering drives . |
| 28 | One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast . |
| 29 | Using hot water from a kettle , it took just over five minutes to heat up to operating temperature . |
| 30 | Many old people face up to accepting the necessity for admission to a residential home , on the basis of discussion within the family and advice from professional workers . |