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

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1	Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home .
2	‘ A ’ moved up to second in division one after beating bottom team Farnborough Tech ‘ C ’ .
3	For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point .
4	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 .
5	He strolled up to No 10 , the door opened but Lord Hesketh kept going .
6	Drove up to FM 's Lodge at about 6.30 pm , had a bath there and changed my clothes .
7	The next month they drove up to Blood Rock .
8	The child was an expense , of course , but she seemed up to date with her garments , her school trips .
9	At last , worn out , she tiptoed up to bed , but she was too tired to sleep .
10	She went home and told her parents , her dad came up to school , and decided to take the matter to the Commission for Racial Equality .
11	Nick Logan was n't one of these ; he was a ‘ ticket ’ , a mod who came up to town by train , from Walthamstow in his case , which was where he grew up , left school at 15 and joined the local paper .
12	… before they were all sold , a quantity of the same sort came up to town at half the price , so that the rest remained on hand .
13	‘ Well , sir , I went down to see Claudia Cohn-Casson , the anthropologist , whom I have known slightly on and off , whenever she came up to town , over the last few years . ’
14	‘ Claudia came up to town .
15	The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine .
16	The landlord knew me , for Benjamin and I often lodged there when we came up to town .
17	At one point the fuller figured female — Holly-jack — came up to Oak-elder , crouched , staring at Tallis , who had been alerted from her drowse .
18	Jack , the Holiday Inn bellboy , came up to Room 301 with a letter for Valerie .
19	His hand brushed down the length of her body so that she shivered , then came up to cup her breast beneath the thin cotton of her nightgown .
20	She would see it when she climbed up to bed that night .
21	The wide mouth of Yell Sound , leading to Sullom Voe opened up to port .
22	To port the dark gash of Loch Hourn cut into the towering peaks of remote Knoydart , while Isle Ornsay in Skye opened up to starboard .
23	The owner of the London stage school which she attends said she turned up to school every day with the right lunch money and with her uniform clean .
24	During their six month tour of duty in Bosnia the Cheshires faced up to death and mass devastation on a daily basis .
25	Rebecca cuddled up to Mum after lunch .
26	THE German central bank , the Bundesbank , yesterday lived up to expectation and cut a key interest rate .
27	We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything .
28	He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window .
29	If you wan na make a point about that well well we 'll point about them erm there is er a comment erm in this erm erm yeah on paragraph , paragraphs four and five , page five the first of we will buy them including all the legislation that will reduce and if you got up to page three , paragraph six there 's a claim that levels are eight percent higher on the same money !
30	Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height .