Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up to " in BNC.

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1 Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty .
2 A witness in the family proceedings court who refuses to give evidence or produce any document once he gets to court may be committed to prison for a term not exceeding one month or fined up to £1,000 or both ( MCA , s97(4) ) .
3 At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ .
4 King agreed with me as to Mr Gould being an entirely uneducated man — he sd when he came here [ to Sydney ] he brought verbal introductions from Sir J. to difft. individuals & went up to them & sd .
5 It bored Philip , so he usually stayed in the kitchen or went up to his room .
6 So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester .
7 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
8 and read up to the summer
9 As they were fitter all had the procedure in one stage and withstood up to 52 minutes rotation time ( patient VIII ) .
10 Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built .
11 Bayfield was the senior ‘ pro ’ of the pack , and lived up to that responsibility nobly .
12 He had , once he left school , gone to university and lived up to his parents ' expectations by gaining a law degree with honours .
13 She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house .
14 He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things .
15 My eyes stayed on his wrists , and moved up to his starched cuffs , somehow more noticeable than all that gold , or gold paint in the case of the watch .
16 Er then he , there 's only three houses in the road that he lived in , , the next one along the road came up for auction and he sold his station and moved up to that and he said he 's just bought the one at the end of the road now which is er seven hundred and fifty thousand he paid for it , a hundred and fifty thousand to have it interior decorated .
17 They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top .
18 From time to time one of us stepped from the path and sank up to his waist in the marsh .
19 All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ;
20 The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero .
21 It was sweet dreams all round but they went to sleep far too early — and woke up to the reality of elimination .
22 When it was all over we all squeezed into Steve 's van and drove up to Dingwalls , the club in Camden .
23 James got the address out of Ginny and drove up to Plumford yesterday afternoon .
24 She could n't see the number from where she was , so she stole through the undergrowth and came up to it from behind .
25 We know you hired a boat , ’ he said , ‘ straight away after you came out of prison , and came up to Oban .
26 He scurried into the room and came up to them , smiling hopefully into their faces .
27 They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch .
28 The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks .
29 The grass in the garden was uncut and came up to her calves .
30 The woman opened the gate and came up to Kee .
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