Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 2 | I 'm going up to the top floor . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going up to the attics . ’ |
| 4 | Oh cos I 'm going up to the doctors as you know . |
| 5 | Well I 'll , I 'm going up to the vet so I 'll leave it running when we 're in the vet . |
| 6 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 7 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 8 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |