Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep graze up to its walls , mellow with yellow lichen , and the reedy dykes which surround it are famous for their marsh frogs , whose operatic baritone can be heard a mile away on May nights . |
| 2 | I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate . |
| 3 | In Forth Worth , people line up to be photographed with Van ; they collect first copies of his recordings ; they drive past his house and tell stories about what they suppose may be going on inside . |
| 4 | Ten per cent are not currently earning ; 31% earn up to £15,000 ; 21% £15,000–20,000 ; 15% £20,000-£25,000 ; 9% £25,000-£30,000 ; 6% £30,000-£40,000 ; and 2% are earning £40,000-£50,000 . |
| 5 | It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached . |
| 6 | ‘ The family have a certain mystique which people look up to because they want to . |
| 7 | Many old people face up to accepting the necessity for admission to a residential home , on the basis of discussion within the family and advice from professional workers . |
| 8 | Oh no dear , like I was saying to Basil , I do n't mind what people get up to . |
| 9 | The journal staff organise up to three seminars a year , each dealing with an important national or international issue . |
| 10 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 11 | Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door . |
| 12 | Cos people play up to them and do things if perhaps they might not , would n't , you know , but would want to do it , but |
| 13 | And some people do up to two a week . |
| 14 | The way the media suck up to them all the time . |
| 15 | No but erm I 've had one or two people swear up to us . |
| 16 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 17 | People come up to us and say , ‘ You 're a joke band , ’ and we are to an extent , but ultimately the joke 's on you . |
| 18 | A few people come up to C and congratulate him on the gig , but as he watches the dancefloor ( the three Clockwork Orange clones are getting down ) , he looks vaguely perplexed . |
| 19 | One by one , people come up to him and jump over the stick or crawl under it . |
| 20 | On this personal level he is aware that change happens all the time and what is important to him , as it is to any composer , are ‘ those moments when people come up to me and say , ‘ this work has changed my life ’ ’ . |
| 21 | ’ I go out constantly , ’ be says- ’ People come up to you and say , ‘ I loved your record , when 's the next one coming out ? ' |
| 22 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 23 | Erm all sorts of general problems I mean I get people come up to me complaining about their rheumatism . |
| 24 | I get people come up to me , can I unblock their toilet , it 's just er a a general thing . |
| 25 | You know and I and I 've only recently really come to terms with how much tha those early songs were part of people 's upbringing and because of Love Hurts and everything people come up to me a lot in the street and we talk about the sixties and everything . |