Example sentences of "[vb base] up to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In such a situation , the colours show up to the best advantage , and the angling of the light helps to ‘ model ’ the detail and separate the planes to increase the illusion of depth .
2 I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens .
3 As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear .
4 We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens .
5 I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread .
6 Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever .
7 I sidle up to the older cop .
8 Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot .
9 However , travel up to the top floor and you enter another world .
10 It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet .
11 If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home .
12 They look up to the English players and try to copy them as they feel that is the right way to behave .
13 The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics .
14 Get up to the gipsy camp and warn 'em .
15 WAKE UP TO THE NEW AGE OF British COAL
16 These themes constantly recur up to the First World War .
17 We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us .
18 Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) .
19 Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle .
20 At midday all the people from Amantani dress up in traditional costume and they go up to the two centres .
21 Go up to the front door and ask if Lewis is coming out to play ? ’
22 Go up to the front row and keep two chairs , ’ he directed and then left them .
23 the , the the green erm coats when they er , when they go up to the main school .
24 They go up to the sixteenth floor at once , not at all sure what they are going to do .
25 So , security guard came over , and if you go up to the next stop , bus , you could come in with them .
26 The first contains a few records , so collect them and slide down the ice into the water , this is extremely easy so just use the map to reach the room containing the concert poster , records and a ‘ ? ’ ( worth 50 points ) , grab 'em all and move up to the extra life , then to the ladder and get the heart if you need it , walk right , go up the ladder and down the other side , pick up the crate and jump into the water .
27 Lemert suggested that this cuts off access to conventional settings , activities and identities and in time leads to the ‘ deviants ’ acquiring a different conception of themselves : they live up to the deviant identity given to them by the labellers and indulge in more ( ‘ secondary ’ ) deviance .
28 ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment .
29 That 's good news for Britain as long as we ensure that we never , ever sign up to the social chapter with its job destroying er job destroying characteristics .
30 Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister .
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