Example sentences of "and [verb] up to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 2 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 3 | and read up to the summer |
| 4 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 5 | If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries . |
| 6 | Pour over the dry cider and water and bring up to the boil . |
| 7 | Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built . |
| 8 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 9 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 10 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 11 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 12 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 13 | I have done this myself , to ideal effect , getting into the car on a sunless July morning and driving up to the road tunnel of Bielsa , some dozen miles beyond Saint-Lary . |
| 14 | It was sweet dreams all round but they went to sleep far too early — and woke up to the reality of elimination . |
| 15 | They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood . |
| 16 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 17 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 18 | Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk . |
| 19 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 20 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 21 | There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) . |
| 22 | Sex and cigarettes were the main things , and going up to the Youth Centre to smash the legs off the table-tennis tables . |
| 23 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 24 | The empty restaurant lay in linen-and-silver silence behind them as she undid the bolts and opened up to the daylight . |
| 25 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |
| 26 | We also have the Parcelforce National Enquiry Centre , available free of charge on 0800 22 44 66 which is open 08.30–17.30 each working day and can help with all general enquiries and give up to the minute service information . |
| 27 | She took the correct corridor , found the Salome annexe and climbed up to the attic . |
| 28 | One morning in mid-January I jumped over the railings and climbed up to the parapet of the gate . |
| 29 | " Hollo ! " he boomed , and sidling up to the visitor , tried to take his hand . |
| 30 | Morthen kicked the wild horse and galloped up to the earth wall . |