Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] up to " in BNC.

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1 This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 .
2 However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place .
3 But done it up to two or three thousand pounds for an estate , knowing that it
4 Done it up to there
5 I 've played through it , recorded with it , connected it up to almost everything but the kitchen sink and every time it 's delivered either the sound I wanted or something very close .
6 You can get I mean , it 's not connected up but you can have er you can have it connected it up to the ra , to the radio and get concerts through the stere
7 I had pushed it up to £25,000 .
8 She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her .
9 Now , you may remember when we inspected his corpse , we noticed the water had soaked him up to his knees ? ’
10 She had drawn it up to her chin .
11 I 've had it up to here with this naivety .
12 ‘ I 've had it up to here with you , ’ said Thacker .
13 I have had it up to here ! ’
14 And if he wants to dabble in those really contentious issues then he 's got to say what he really thinks , because I 've had it up to f—ing here . ’
15 Like The Fabulous Baker Boys , the King Brothers had broken up as much because they 'd ‘ had it up to here ’ as because of the ominous advent of ‘ the group ’ .
16 Indeed , I 've had it up to here .
17 In any way , shape or form , I 've had it up to here with chickens ! ’
18 I 'm telling ya , I 've just had it up to there honest I told Dave this morning , he says well he says I ca n't , he , you 're not losing anything , going and sitting and listening to the man
19 They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap .
20 They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast !
21 Well John sorted that he 's brought you up to date now .
22 Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor .
23 He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ .
24 This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang .
25 They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same .
26 She did n't know where half the things went , but she tidied them up and put them in piles on the stairs so people could taken them up to their rooms when they went , and the kitchen looked nice and tidy .
27 ‘ It 's our Ernest put you up to this , ’ Sarah interrupted .
28 ‘ Has Candy put you up to this ? ’
29 Who 's put you up to this call ?
30 ‘ Who 's put you up to it ?
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