Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility .
2 Just before Christmas , Pogo invited Aubrey and me to go up to Melton Mowbray to hunt .
3 They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking .
4 They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations
5 and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ?
6 So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land
7 Collect four coupons and each set of coupons allows you to claim up to four tickets and it was a pound a ticket was n't it ?
8 He wants you to go up to the villa . ’
9 Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 .
10 A secured Home Improvement Loan is secured on your property and allows you to borrow up to 95% of your home 's value at our standard mortgage rate ( currently 15.40% ( 16.80% Typical APR ) variable ) — but you must have an Abbey National mortgage or own your home outright .
11 Our Equity Release service allows you to borrow up to 80% of the value of your home , less any outstanding mortgage or other loan secured on it , either as a lump sum or simply as a credit facility to be used as and when you like .
12 Other utilities allow you to support up to four other users on the same system , each of which has a different key , allowing different levels of access to the system .
13 Once you are over 60 , the Inland Revenue allows you to invest up to 40 per cent of your earnings tax free into a pension plan .
14 How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ?
15 ‘ He liked you to stand up to him and give as good as he got .
16 ‘ I want to talk , money talk , and I 'd like you to come up to New York next week to meet with my financial boys , if that 's okay with you ? ’
17 This option enables you to activate up to 10 DCs via a single package .
18 This page allows you to inspect up to 16 of your oldest mail messages .
19 This option allows you to reserve up to 29 Source , Foreign or Pmodel modules names at any one time .
20 Most machines will have eight SIMM slots , allowing you to fit up to 32Mb of RAM .
21 It 's long-play feature enables you to record up to eight hours of matches on one tape — twice as long as usual !
22 The Midi Mate allows you to send up to three patch changes on three different channels and offers three different operational modes .
23 The Gib'Sea family of yachts allow you to move up to a larger craft as your requirements progress — you can select from the comprehensive range , 24′ to 52′ , while remaining loyal to a marque you can trust .
24 This option enables you to delete up to 16 LIFESPAN mail messages which have previously been inspected without having to mark them as in option 6.4.1 — Delete Individual Mail .
25 A way for you to make up to me for murder . ’
26 This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight .
27 There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it .
28 His only concern was for his own men and for the standards and traditions he expected them to live up to .
29 However , as a corollary to this , my increasingly strident expressions of discontent put considerable pressure on me to live up to my rhetoric .
30 And that , as long as they did n't expect me to turn up to every committee meeting .
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