Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And seventh note is the leading note because it 's leading you up to the tonic again . |
| 2 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 3 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 4 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 5 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 6 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 7 | When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’ |
| 8 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 9 | Pitching it up to the batsman made it , quite often , unplayable . |
| 10 | They hit many patches of soft sand and wasted hours unloading vehicles , shoving them up to the top of dunes and reloading again . |
| 11 | The bubble strategy considers the plant , or a series of plants , to be enclosed in a bubble and the EPA sets limits on the total discharges of each type of regulated pollutant , leaving it up to the plant manager to decide how to reach the goals ( figure 7.3 ) . |
| 12 | Naturally we will exercise discretion , but we wish to make the sharing of information normal , rather than leaving it up to the client to make the case for access . |
| 13 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |