Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 2 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 3 | Kathleen put her hands on her hips and squared up to him . |
| 4 | absolutely but that is n't quite the same as actually having been taken up and developed up to ninety six . |
| 5 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 6 | He was caught with his clothes in tatters trying to flee in a taxi and owned up to police . |
| 7 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 8 | Leaving the boy sitting at the table , he went back to his desk and phoned up to Kate . |
| 9 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 10 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 11 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 12 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 13 | The campanile , the famous leaning tower , is cylindrical , 52 feet in diameter and , like the cathedral , is marble faced and arcaded up to six storeys . |
| 14 | ‘ The Pacific also reported a good profit and performed up to our expectations . |
| 15 | And shown up to be fourth rate in front of the world , ’ screamed the Daily Record . |
| 16 | Next comes grandson William Gylby , wealthy London lawyer who made great strides , increasing the size of the island to over 1,500 acres by his death in 1744 , and having the dubious distinction of attempting to reduce the troublesome rat population by having them killed , dressed and offered up to his tenants and workmen to eat . |
| 17 | There was n't a soul in sight but the Brigadier got out and called up to his left : |
| 18 | If Bully was in the front garden when she set out for Pack Meeting , he would leap the gate and bound up to her , putting his great front paws against her chest , and barking at her . |
| 19 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 20 | I asked him , but he was already asleep and I drove on to Huacho , wondering what sort of a man Gómez would turn out to be and why Iris Sunderby had broken her journey at Lima and driven up to Cajamarca . |
| 21 | Just because we have been born and brought up to something does n't mean we will always value it . |
| 22 | By adopting this ‘ historical ’ approach , misunderstandings can be traced back to their origins , and then linked and brought up to their current situation . |
| 23 | Born at Épinal in the Vosges , Durkheim was Jewish and brought up to be a rabbi which , however , he did not become , turning instead to the new science of sociology . |
| 24 | ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . ) |
| 25 | It appeared in three subsequent editions in 1831 , 1832 , and 1838 , considerably enlarged and brought up to date . |
| 26 | There was much previous information available , now to be reassessed and brought up to date . |
| 27 | In this new edition it has been thoroughly revised , expanded and brought up to date . |
| 28 | About 50 old Somervillians met in the library of the University Women 's Club to be welcomed by the A.S.M. President and brought up to date on Somerville news by the Principal . |
| 29 | ‘ If our pensions were higher and brought up to standard there would be no need for people to go cap in hand and ask for concessions , ’ said Elsie . |
| 30 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |