Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 2 | The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units . |
| 3 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 4 | Hearts0 St Mirren0 NOBODY anticipated a classic at Tynecastle and Hearts , needing to pick up both points to stay within sight of Premier Division leaders Rangers , and the doomed St Mirren duly lived up to expectations . |
| 5 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 6 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 7 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 8 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 9 | In the 18th and 19th centuries , they defended their great overseas empire against pirates , using ships large enough to carry up to 80 cannon . |
| 10 | But the true figure is much higher , with one London health authority estimating that its hospitals alone lose up to £1 million a year . |
| 11 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 12 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 13 | that 's our home produce snakes and ladders it does n't go on too much , it only goes up to number thirty |
| 14 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 15 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 16 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 18 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 19 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 21 | musicians can only count up to four . |
| 22 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 23 | ‘ We went a few rounds when I was big enough to stand up to him . ’ |
| 24 | All you have to do is to be brave enough to stand up to those putting pressure on you or taking advantage of your desire to keep everyone happy . |
| 25 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 26 | Reports from Kampuchea claim that the country 's 35,000-man army is good enough to stand up to Khmer Rouge incursions . |
| 27 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 28 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 29 | These tracks are also extendible and can be purchased in two diameters , 25mm ( 1in ) and 35mm ( 1 ⅜in ) and span up to 609cm ( 20ft ) although some of the narrower types only span up to 381 cm ( 12ft 6in ) . |
| 30 | Billy Sullivan suddenly shaped up to his friend , his clenched fists pawing at the air and his shoulders moving from side to side . |