Example sentences of "have [verb] up to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 2 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 3 | Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering £200 towards legal fees on completion . |
| 4 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 5 | The Swedish influence has continued up to the present day , where the Faunus Kennel has a great influence on the breeding stock in Norway . |
| 6 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 7 | Soon they will have to go up to the front-line again . |
| 8 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 9 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman wants a level playing field between Scotland and England , he will have to face up to a substantial drop in spending by central Government in Scotland . |
| 11 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 12 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 13 | He is the first of the so-called Marcos cronies to have stood up to the Presidential Commission on Good Government , and as a result is seen as a man of action . |
| 14 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 15 | Mr. W.S. Johnston , the Second Master and Head of English , had been appointed to the staff in 1934 , initially as Form Master of Junior B. By 1937 he too had moved up to the Senior School . |
| 16 | Later , when it was time to take Eddie back to school , Louise had kissed him at the gate and his father had walked up to the main door with him . |
| 17 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 18 | The pre-filming budget had gone up to the then astronomical sixteen million dollars with Tyrone Power cast in the lead . |
| 19 | When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept . |
| 20 | Apart from the physical difficulties , he also had to face up to the mental stress of completing the task . |
| 21 | In the claim we are showing quite clearly , and we have won up to the present stage — six years to show that women 's work in the RVH is equal to men 's work . |
| 22 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 23 | Pyatt steps up BOXING : Chris Pyatt will make his middleweight debut in Norwich tonight against American Melvin Wynn with a debt of thanks to Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn , who have moved up to the 12-stone division . |
| 24 | ‘ That accident could have happened to anyone — male or female , ’ Sophie said , ‘ and all vets have to face up to a certain amount of danger . ’ |
| 25 | Nonetheless 35 application developers have signed up to the early code programme , with the intention of modifying or developing applications to work with CICS/2 , and IBM will break with tradition in mid-April when anyone will be able to get beta test versions as part of an early implementor programme . |