Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’ |
| 2 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 3 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 4 | Will he urge the chairman to carry out a study of the economics of mining anthracite from small drift mines employing up to 75 people because many believe that mined in that way , anthracite could be extremely saleable and competitive in relation to both opencast operations and imports of Chinese coal ? |
| 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 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two associated berths , one equipped with two pneumatic grain elevators were also completed allowing vessels drawing up to 9.6 metres ordinary spring tides to discharge to the new facility . |
| 10 | A report in the British Journal of Addiction says some carrot junkies eat up to five bunches a day and become desperate if deprived of their fix . |
| 11 | ‘ The Venetians got up to some tricks trying to extract as much money from the organisation as possible . |
| 12 | Youth-v-experience or perhaps it 's time a woman won in Stockton South The three candidates squaring up to each other in the battle for Stockton South are quick to use the differences that lie between them as political ammunition . |
| 13 | In Hamble village , their first precious spare hours were spent not in the pubs but in the Tesco 's supermarket watching shoppers walking up to overburdened shelves and putting all manner of goods in their baskets . ’ |
| 14 | Poster expenditure may also have been overestimated because the parties used up to eight different creative treatments over the period instead of just one , which is the standard for a monthlong campaign . |
| 15 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Incidentally I was wearing my ‘ holy robes ’ at Alton Towers back in November , & some Blackburn fans came up to me to thank me for Batty ! |
| 21 | Dead-heading climbers and ramblers can often be a massive job involving step ladders to reach up to pergolas , arches and walls , and the larger shrub types can present the same problem . |
| 22 | According to Anne Mountfield of the Directory of Social Change ( Mountfield 1991 ) schools received up to £100 million from parents and charities with an equal amount being donated in funds and services by industry . |
| 23 | Then all the young gentlemen came up to him and shook both his hands very hard , especially the hand which held his few possessions . |
| 24 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 25 | I got out of the car and a large brooding man with close-set eyes and far-flung shoulders came up to me . |
| 26 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 27 | and there 's no facilities for kids , you know young kids ranging up to the age of er about sixteen seventeen . |
| 28 | GTI has particular expertise in wood-burning gasifiers for making lime : its largest installation consumes about 0–8 tonnes of wood per tonne of lime produced ; traditional methods consume up to 2–5 tonnes of logs for the same result . |
| 29 | One of ‘ I 's kids came up to me not long after and said , ‘ You 're a lemon ’ . |
| 30 | He stressed that his government " stands for co-operation with the West and will encourage foreigners to own up to 100 per cent of businesses " . |