Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 2 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 3 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 4 | A wide ice slope led gently up to the pass . |
| 5 | Arrangements were further complicated by the arrival of an orthodox Bachad group who demanded a separate kosher kitchen all of their own , which they maintained right up to the time of their departure to Gwrych Castle at the outbreak of war . |
| 6 | The ducks swam right up to Anabelle . |
| 7 | IAN WRIGHT grabbed a superb 73rd-minute winner against his old club Crystal Palace as Arsenal moved menacingly up to third place in the Premier League just a point behind leaders Blackburn . |
| 8 | The horses drew right up to me before they stopped . |
| 9 | Then after they crossed the Rhine , we moved away up to the north Holland about . |
| 10 | Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge . |
| 11 | So we sat down to rest while Long John came slowly up to us . |
| 12 | Before the construction of the Promenade here , in 1903 , the sands came right up to the tram track , as seen in this view of a Dreadnought approaching the terminus . |
| 13 | Instead of sitting on the benches he came right up to Minch 's cage and stared into its emptiness for a long time . |
| 14 | One came right up to my face , so I pulled out my sword and cut open his stomach . |
| 15 | It was even more frightening than the chugging , and it came right up to the shelter door . |
| 16 | The lane from Bishopstow village came right up to the drive gates and ended there between stone gateposts crowned with lichened pineapples . |
| 17 | He came right up to the desk , towering over her , despite the solid barrier of wood . |
| 18 | He came quickly up to me and said , ‘ Give me your camera . ’ |
| 19 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 20 | One of the men came straight up to me and grabbed the kids . |
| 21 | The three came straight up to him . |
| 22 | He came straight up to the open window and smiled . |
| 23 | The sergeant came straight up to me and said : " Sentry you were asleep . |
| 24 | A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window . |
| 25 | The meal came well up to expectations and the wine he selected made the blood course through Sophie 's veins . |
| 26 | The trees and undergrowth came almost up to the house . |
| 27 | The only things worth saving were a mulberry , a cherry plum and the Magnolia grandiflora which at the time came barely up to the window and is now heading for the roof . |
| 28 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 29 | With a loud sniff , she climbed wearily up to her bedroom . |
| 30 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |