Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Davies replied that the authority 's budget added up to about 0.2pc of NHS spending in Wales . |
| 2 | Behind him the noise was changing , rising , as the fight wound up to pressure . |
| 3 | The Chairman wound up to applause . |
| 4 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 5 | 3.21 The Working Party 's Guidelines are expressed to be based upon an analysis of cases reported up to September 1991 . |
| 6 | I had obviously believe the gospel according to The Sun when it came to caves , where the underground world condemned hapless scout leaders and their unsuspecting charges to at least 15 hours trapped up to their necks in slimy cold water , if not to horrible slow deaths from rock falls and suffocation . |
| 7 | Mr. Cousins argues that a farmer with 1,000 acres , of which 50 acres would be set-aside , would hardly notice eight acres given up to non-rotational set-aside . |
| 8 | Where the plaintiff claims continuing loss the judge has to decide the issue by reference to interest on the loss calculated up to the date of payment in . |
| 9 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 10 | Harry brought friends with him , the family carriage was despatched to Truro to meet a London train bringing Mrs Burrows ' oldest friend , a widow with a daughter who was reputed to be an awfully jolly girl , and a motor car rolled up to Langley Dene with more cousins , swathed in veils and goggles and long motoring coats , come to celebrate Easter . |
| 11 | 6.3 The expiry or termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Parties accrued up to the date of such expiry or termination . |
| 12 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 13 | They had seen something , they had heard something , they had smelt something , but all those various sensations added up to nothing solid : nothing that was known , for certain . |
| 14 | Back in the days of bare-knuckle bouts the referee scratched a line in the dirt and fighters shaped up to each other by ‘ toeing ’ this line . |
| 15 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 16 | This was updated to include data collected up to December 1991 and the results of testing patients for HIV antibodies . |
| 17 | The party 's share of the vote crawled up to barely 35 per cent , thanks largely to Lib Dem deserters . |
| 18 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 19 | The only aid agreed up to now is 50 million ecu pledged by the EC . |
| 20 | When Penry returned he smiled in approval to find her propped tidily against the pillows , covers drawn up to her chin . |
| 21 | When they are moving about and their legs are held apart from the body the splash-pattern is not obvious , but once they crouch motionless , with their legs drawn up to their sides , their trunk and leg patches meet and obscure the divisions between them . |
| 22 | He gasped , winded , and she twisted off him quickly and sat up , legs drawn up to her chest , chewing her wet knee . |
| 23 | He could not walk erect , and invariably crouched on his heels with his knees drawn up to his chin , and he existed on meal pottage fed to him by a spoon by his mother . |
| 24 | I was looking down at her , brown knees drawn up to her chin and the open V of her shirt showing the round of her breasts , even the pinking of the nipple circles . |
| 25 | Rounding a bend , she saw Water Gypsy tied up to the bank . |
| 26 | Making no reply , the agent tied up to an iron ring let into the stone . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope you are better , Jekyll , ’ the lawyer called up to him . |
| 28 | Some kindly English Burma police were with us and whenever the boat tied up to the banks would slip ashore and bring back fruit for us . |
| 29 | A car pulled up to the fence . |
| 30 | Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob . |