Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Not every minute , " I said , and then he took my hands and pulled me right up to him . |
| 2 | She said no more and as soon as they arrived at Broom House she said , ‘ No need to take me right up to the house — I can walk up the drive . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 4 | I only up to seven hours in a fortnight . |
| 5 | Written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain , the fully revised 2nd Edition of this widely acclaimed atlas now brings you right up to date with the most significant developments and advances in AIDS research over the past two years . |
| 6 | And David says that your husband is a doctor : he ought to have sent you straight up to the mountains . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I 'll take you straight up to Hilda 's room , and then I 'll make you a nice cup of tea . |
| 8 | ‘ What are you really up to tonight , Fran ? |
| 9 | " Look , mate , if you ca n't make it in bed , if she is n't finding you quite up to the mark , do n't take your frustration out on the rest of us . |
| 10 | ‘ Is she quite up to it ? |
| 11 | But clearly , by the late 1940s , an entirely new approach was required , and Blom was given a free hand to bring everything as up to date as possible . |
| 12 | Cos I 've just got to check are we alright up to three . |
| 13 | Er but I am going to take your books in at the end of the lesson so you can perhaps take the last few minutes before just if you 'll just erm put the sums at the moment erm just fix in your sheet fix it in and erm check out that you 've got everything else up to date okay ? |
| 14 | She had given herself totally up to him , and did not care what happened to her as long as she was with him . |
| 15 | At school , you start off , you integrate with everybody right up to the third year so that , in the third year or the fourth year , your friends or who you know as friends , they might call you a ‘ black bastard ’ . |
| 16 | And we have some 150 letters he sent to her right up to the day before his death . |
| 17 | He was not a fool and he recognized that what came out when Therese opened her mouth was a unique sound that could , if she had continued in her youthful career , have taken her right up to the top , to the international opera houses of the world . |
| 18 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 19 | Paula and Sally took her straight up to their bedroom . |
| 20 | Adam chuckled and took Billie 's arm and led her straight up to him . |
| 21 | Oh , this coming back to an empty house , Rupert thought , when he had seen her safely up to her door . |
| 22 | OD1 has less distortion to it than OD2 but even for that channel the gain preset of 4 is well down , so I kick it right up to 20 ( the upper limit of both gain and volume ) and things begin to sound a little more like it . |
| 23 | Where you start down at the estbottom and build it right up to the goddamn , fuckin' sky ! ’ |
| 24 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 25 | Either way , you 'll find yourself in it right up to your neck , get my drift ? |
| 26 | No , all I was curious to know was , er the commencement yes , but I mean w could you take it right up to the sort of the tapes until the day before the elections , or what would be the limit on that ? |
| 27 | When she did n't move , he freed her hands to capture her face , tilting it gently up to his . |
| 28 | No we 'll leave it entirely up to you and i it was n't English , I think he was Polish or or you know and erm some beautiful meals there was a stew that he did and it was beautiful and we we told him |
| 29 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 30 | Is n't it really up to the board to decide how it wants to spend money , and to persuade the government , as holder of the public purse , that its plans are wise ? |