Example sentences of "up to [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The University and , more importantly , other graduates would like to hear what you have got up to since you left Bristol .
2 They cost up to than £30 in the shops .
3 They cost up to than £30 in the shops .
4 He began on a new plan and Endill tried to ask him what he was up to but every time he approached , Mould shouted ,
5 We guessed what it was all leading up to but the exact date was a very well kept secret .
6 She must have known what her Mum was up to but I did n't question her any more on the subject .
7 Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie .
8 I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate .
9 I know what I think Miss Green 's up to but I 'd like to be sure . ’
10 If I ask questions they 'll wonder what I 'm up to but you can wheedle information out of them in general conversation . ’
11 And it 's now , it 's continuous again all the way up to but not including plus four .
12 And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know .
13 He did n't know what Gesner was up to but he thought he 'd better tell the Direktor .
14 Or at best everybody could just come up to but nobody would be creating re er a surplus , nobody would have the resources to invest to enable them to come above subsistence
15 Jean was so utterly trusting , she never even wondered what Brian got up to while she and a woman neighbour were away on their annual fortnight holidays abroad .
16 ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere .
17 But she discovered what he was up to and confiscated the church .
18 For the six days up to and including Wednesday , no trains had reached Armenia from Azerbaijan .
19 Employees ' NI contributions are paid on earnings up to and including what is known as the upper earnings limit , which is £390 a week from 6th April 1991 .
20 • The employee pays NI contributions on earnings up to and including the upper earnings limit .
21 NI contributions are normally paid at an initial percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the lower earnings limit , and at a main percentage rate on earnings between the lower and employee 's upper earnings limit .
22 If your employee has the right to pay the married woman or widow 's reduced rate NI contributions , she pays employee 's NI contributions at a fixed reduced percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the upper earnings limit .
23 Add together gross earnings on the eight pay-days up to and including the last pay-day before the end of the qualifying week ( QW ) and divide the total by 8 .
24 There was what seemed to be an endless round of meetings to discuss our coverage , with Ford personnel up to and including European vice-presidents .
25 Peter Dray , testing and commissioning engineer : ‘ Manifested all problems produced by BR reorganisation ; less than happy ’ with his job , as shown by performance in days up to and including November 27 ; despite having facilities , time and assistance for an independent wire count of Hemingway 's work , did not do this — far from being ‘ the last defence ’ , was no defence at all .
26 Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on .
27 Grandmothers were looked up to and respected then .
28 Such was the pattern up to and including the minority of James V. With Mary 's , it became abundantly clear that the age of limited political struggles was over .
29 ROBERT NORSTER , the Welsh team manager , and national coach Alan Davies have been invited by the Welsh Rugby Union to continue in their roles through the next three Five Nations campaigns and up to and including the 1995 World Cup .
30 Davies , who was recruited last August by Wales , was last week confirmed as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup .
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