Example sentences of "[vb pp] up to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 2 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 3 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 4 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 5 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 6 | It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles . |
| 7 | The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins . |
| 8 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 9 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 10 | 6.3 The expiry or termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Parties accrued up to the date of such expiry or termination . |
| 11 | Less than cheery playwright Mike Leigh 's vicious attack on the nouveau riche starred his wife Alison Steadman ( for a change — not ! ) as dinner-hostess Beverley , wound up to the point of implosion with niceties , niggles and appearances . |
| 12 | As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging . |
| 13 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 14 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 15 | The staff was gradually built up to a strength of 460 and , by the end of September 1943 60 planes had been repaired . |
| 16 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
| 17 | By Stage three , marketing has moved up to a position of equality with sales . |
| 18 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |
| 19 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 20 | The rest of the sack matched up to the quality of manufacture and finish of the back system — as it should do at the price . |
| 21 | While the war certainly strengthened affective notions of patriotic unity , this never remotely matched up to the ideal of the ‘ people 's community ’ proclaimed and preached by the Party . |
| 22 | Phone bookings should be made up to a fortnight in advance on 0229 66063 . |
| 23 | The latest figures from the Home Office show that the largest of the 60 seizures of the drug made up to the end of June this year was 40 grammes in Nottingham . |
| 24 | The consolidated financial statements include those of the Company and all its subsidiaries made up to the end of the financial year . |
| 25 | He was on the airport tarmac waiting for me , his Mercedes sports drawn up to the foot of the mobile steps . |
| 26 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 27 | The distance between the excitation and detection electrodes was chosen on the basis that the CSA can be measured up to a diameter of 4 to 5 times the interelectrode distance . |
| 28 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , who only later realised what he had opened up to the whole of mankind . |
| 30 | The centre-piece of his plan was the Banqueting House , which would be opened up to the park by demolishing the Horse Guards . |