Example sentences of "take up to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established .
2 Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire .
3 As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate .
4 Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that .
5 They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward .
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