Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 2 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 3 | By 9 January 1177 he had besieged Dax , which had been held against him by the Viscount of Dax and Bigorre , and taken it ; he had besieged Bayonne , which the Viscount of Bayonne had held against him , and taken it ; he had marched right up to " the Gate of Spain " at Cize and there he had captured and demolished the castle of St Pierre . |
| 4 | The nettles were bolder , they bravely marched right up to her very door bringing their friends the docks with them . |
| 5 | Personnel changes have percolated right up to the boardroom . |
| 6 | She was warm , deliciously warm , all over , for the first time since leaving Scotland , and when she had arrived , but an hour before , she had come straight up to Aunt Emily 's room with no injunctions to change her boots or smooth her hair , and been given a tray of tea and toast cut into little fingers and tiny biscuits flavoured with almond . |
| 7 | So they have plenty of time to grow to a respectable size and are merely carried passively up to the surface with the rest of the magma when it is erupted , and are distributed uniformly throughout it . |
| 8 | Manuel Caballeros with a 66 had moved menacingly up to fifth place with the little Japanese , Otaki . |
| 9 | The PSC in Gazankulu also needs to negotiate with the Lebowa authorities and information has to be disseminated right up to the village authority level — the chiefs and their councils . |
| 10 | However , it required this to be done only up to the amount of the buyer 's outstanding indebtedness to the seller . |
| 11 | On the far side of the pond was the old ford and Mum used to tell us that this was the route to the city taken by carts before the building of the old Harnham Bridge in the fourteenth century , although I expect it was used right up to the advent of the motor car . |
| 12 | The slim-bodied design of the Cut Saw enables it to be used right up to walls or floors , so protruding pipes , etc , can be sawn off almost flush , especially if a slightly flexible blade is used . |
| 13 | It split the glass , entered the left closed eye , and was buried right up to the hilt . |
| 14 | The resulting arch has a neat lipped edge , and can be papered right up to . |
| 15 | Mrs Hollidaye met Dot at the train with the Ford drawn right up to the station exit . |
| 16 | She had appealed right up to the Director of the Bureau , and after telephoning Vice-President Odell he had agreed to bring her along . |
| 17 | It was lying on its side with its legs drawn stiffly up to a grossly distended belly . |
| 18 | Lee must have got safely up to Jubilee Wood . |
| 19 | These were dragged laboriously up to the terrace , and there ranged along the line of the filled-in ditches . |
| 20 | Is the recall of a vaccination or early infection , which may be demonstrated clinically up to 50 years after antigen exposure , retained by a long-lived cell , or by its progeny ? |
| 21 | They should be brought right up to each individual point of use to maximise convenience . |
| 22 | The accumulation of debris flows in this area has caused the shelf-edge to have prograded seawards up to 5 kilometres in places . |
| 23 | This observation leads to a common visual problem arising in painting when a line in the background is brought hard up to the edge of a foreground object . |
| 24 | Both these are very different from the ‘ experimental researches ’ which made up Faraday 's main research-publications , where every paragraph is numbered consecutively up to 3,299 , and where theorizing is kept in its place in the Baconian manner . |
| 25 | The bomb had a lengthy fuse attached to it , and when it was discovered by one of the schoolboys , the fuse was burnt almost up to the bomb . |
| 26 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 27 | He had stepped right up to her desk . |
| 28 | Oh one 's gone right up to the top of the |
| 29 | Until this whole ridiculous mess is sorted out you 're involved right up to your pretty little neck . |
| 30 | Emboldened by this , he had gone straight up to her and said that he had heard she had called him and wanted him . |