Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 2 | Gradually , from the toe , that was July , and I got paralysed up to my hips and er I had no relations or anybody there , but Toc H were very good . |
| 3 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 4 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 5 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 6 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 7 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 8 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 9 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 10 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 11 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 12 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 13 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 14 | Neighbours reported hearing up to eight shots before the gunmen made off on foot . |
| 15 | THE 1980s was the decade when the sleeping giants of the High Street banks tried to wake up to customers ' needs before competitors stole accounts from under their noses . |
| 16 | You 've tried to do the man said , tried to face up to things , the things that we all know trigger you off . |
| 17 | Mhm , when I started in here er I just got put up to work beside one of the women , she just showed me , |
| 18 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 19 | She came waddling up to me . |
| 20 | Men seemed to float up to her , encircling her before she reached the bottom step , and she felt Lucenzo 's fingers leave hers as he was crowded out . |
| 21 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 22 | He must have succeeded since by the end of the next day we 'd moved up to fifth place , and we got our permit to camp for two nights by the Colorado . |
| 23 | Then she said , ‘ If you were a good-looking chap who wore Armani suits and washed-silk shirts and things , and you found yourself sitting across from a girl with freckles and a ponytail — or at least , a girl who used to have freckles and a ponytail — and you realized she 'd grown up to be gorgeous , would you go for her ? ’ |
| 24 | The young man came surging up to them , as the only other responsible people left around . |
| 25 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 26 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ wobbled the blue chins as he came looming up to me like an ocean liner in a fog . |
| 27 | Brown Owl came hurrying up to them . |
| 28 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 29 | Of all the things I 'd got up to in my time , I never thought I 'd be stitched for trying to return someone 's stolen property . |
| 30 | And he he 'd got up to it and he gone good morning Trev about two inches away from it . |