Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 2 | A sleeping porcelain doll wired up to an intravenous drip . |
| 3 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 4 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 5 | It was too perfect ; a picture postcard blown up to the scale of real life . |
| 6 | Rounding a bend , she saw Water Gypsy tied up to the bank . |
| 7 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 8 | With the volume level edged up to the danger zone , Rattle 's conception clicks into place . |
| 9 | It is 2130 and the EOD team are grouped around the television set again , cigarette smoke spiralling up to the ceiling . |
| 10 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 11 | I had never heard Pike sing in real life , so I could n't tell how this spirit voice matched up to the real one . |
| 12 | It 's about time the music press woke up to the fact that rave is the new heavy metal , sucking innocents in and destroying their musical tastebuds . |
| 13 | A delivery truck drove up to the quay and transferred the entire contents — 107 cases of beer — to the South African yacht , a one-off 61-footer ( 18.5m ) . |
| 14 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 15 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 16 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 17 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |
| 18 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 19 | At that point , a new bright red Mercedes estate car eased up to the Court steps . |
| 20 | A bottle of house red lived up to the expectations predicted by the standard of the food — rich and fruity and not recommended for those driving home . |
| 21 | C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use . |