Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 2 | Some of the people I interviewed became informants , who kept me up to date on those phases of West End life with which they were familiar . |
| 3 | These , at least until recently , hardly kept them up to date at all with stock market developments . |
| 4 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 5 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 6 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 7 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
| 8 | ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’ |