Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
| 4 | Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle . |
| 5 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 6 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 7 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |