Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A late rally dragged the index up to close at 18,560 , still off more than 1,000 on the week . |
| 2 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |
| 3 | The Electricity Board will tell you what you need to bring the installation up to scratch . |
| 4 | It 's just to split the recommendation up to make sure we 've got the authorities we need to do the whole lot I think Chairman . |
| 5 | Then he turned around and held the taper up to illuminate the scene . |
| 6 | He 'd soon be shouting at the window to call the boss up to go and get him some drink — usually home-brewed beer . |
| 7 | That first row , when we got the committee up to face him , that frightened him , and then it was made quite plain that Therese was here to stay . |
| 8 | ‘ Even if you woke the child up to clean his or her teeth , some sugar is bound to be retained on or between the teeth . ’ |
| 9 | And I said he finally managed to pluck the guts up to tell me last , plucked the courage up to tell me last night and Andy 's eyes light up and I just said erm and I said |
| 10 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 11 | The move up to verse can be ineffective , deservedly so . |
| 12 | The move up to verse can herald a darker mood , though . |
| 13 | When she again hitched the linen up to ease its weight , he said , ‘ Well , I must be going . |
| 14 | Once the trainer explained how it took time to bring the body up to peak fitness , she stopped trying to keep up and felt better for it . |
| 15 | Come right up to the right up to bar really are n't you ? |
| 16 | This might be to speed the job up to earn a larger bonus or to create some leisure time during the working shift , or to slow the job down so that an impression of busy-ness is created and he is not given further work . |
| 17 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 18 | Oh I 'm taking the phone up to phone my sister . |
| 19 | to make heating the water up to make a coffee what would she boil that water in ? |
| 20 | Make the soufflé up to step 3 , cover with clingfilm and store in the fridge for up to two days , or , freeze without prawns and peppers . |
| 21 | The game had stood at thirty-love when he tossed the ball up to serve and the man at the back of the opposite court had watched him hop and stumble , then fall , the racquet leaving his hand on the upswing and curving away . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I pulled the hamstring in my left leg as I picked the ball up to score a try . |
| 23 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 24 | Llansantffraid boss Graham Breeze paid tribute to the band of helpers who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to bring the ground up to scratch . |
| 25 | The company says the product has been redesigned from the ground up to exploit the GUI but keep compatibility with existing 20/20 applications . |
| 26 | Its FASware software includes a proprietary 80,000-line real-time kernel and an all-important Write Anywhere File Layout ( WAFL ) file system designed from the ground up to handle files up to 4Gb and requiring no disk partitioning , a traditional Unix nightmare . |
| 27 | Its FASware software includes a proprietary 80,000-line real-time kernel and an all-important Write Anywhere File Layout file system designed from the ground up to handle files up to 4Gb and requiring no disk partitioning , a traditional Unix nightmare . |
| 28 | If prose is the lower medium , then the movement up to verse is a movement to a higher rank , and can be described in terms of the rituals known in anthropology as rites of passage . |
| 29 | She did n't want to think too closely about what she would do if Luke opened the door , but the driver had left an old anorak on the passenger-seat and she slipped it on , pulling the hood up to cover her hair . |
| 30 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |