Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 2 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 3 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 4 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 5 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 6 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 7 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 8 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 9 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 10 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 11 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 12 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 13 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 14 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 15 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 16 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 17 | He continued to suffer a great deal with poor health , which , he says , stirred him up to ‘ speak to sinners with some compassion as a dying man to dying men ’ . |
| 18 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 19 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 20 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 21 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 22 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 23 | He hauled me up to my tutor , who said , do you intend to marry the girl ? |
| 24 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 25 | As Mrs Giffen showed me up to my room , she smiled and said , ‘ Is n't it wonderful ? |
| 26 | So at the moment with the earning that they paid you up to date two hundred and fifty quid I ca n't give you reduced advice under the legal aid system at the moment because you 're still being paid . |
| 27 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 28 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 29 | It was this customised 250-watt Hiwatt head with a 4x12 cab , so I switched it on , plugged in a Rickenbacker , turned it up to about 2 or 3 and , well , it just took your head off . |
| 30 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |