Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 2 | Well , the surgery 's at half eleven till half twelve so we pop back here for a quick cup of tea and I want to go up to Felixstowe . |
| 3 | But everyone else is in but I want to clear Wednesday and Thursday cos I want we want to go up to Suffolk . |
| 4 | I want to come home I want to go up to my bedroom and get on with |
| 5 | WHATEVER their politics , Poles expect to wait up to 20 years for a new telephone . |
| 6 | ‘ If you want to come up to Manchester , ’ said Jonquil , ‘ just drop me a line . |
| 7 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 8 | ‘ It depends whether they want to own up to it . ’ |
| 9 | If you want to transfer up to 4 players , just send me an E-mail telling me which ones you wish to sell & buy . |
| 10 | Prices range from £40 to £58 but expect to pay up to £100 in London — call for your nearest salon . |
| 11 | He and Mr Weston , whose wife 's relatives served with the Fusiliers , have already spent three years on the book and expect to take up to two more years to finish it . |
| 12 | For those who want to move up to Windows , we must make sure our DOS and Windows products are as compatible as possible . ’ |
| 13 | They hope to raise up to £8OO for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Appeal by sponsorship . |
| 14 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 15 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 16 | They seem to get up to all sorts of things nowadays . |
| 17 | Cereal stocks all set to soar up to 40m tonnes |
| 18 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 19 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 20 | I like to wake up to a cup of Assam , a very robust tea , or a strong blend of African and Indian teas of the type that makes a good English breakfast blend ; in the evening I prefer to drink Keemun or Lapsang Souchong . |
| 21 | Partly in you , you know , that , that , that , that likes a challenge and you like to step up to things that are difficult and you can summon up your courage very easily and oth some people have more difficulty . |
| 22 | He also has some good friends at school and the company of the Christine family and of course Uncle Kevin and Auntie Linda , the new hostel parents , so please continue to pray for them all , as they continue to face up to continued separation from their parents . |
| 23 | For example , children who are told they are stupid tend to live up to that expectation . |
| 24 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 25 | However , for databases which fail to come up to that standard a new right to prevent unfair extraction is proposed . |
| 26 | Theories that fail to stand up to observational and experimental tests must be eliminated and replaced by further speculative conjectures . |
| 27 | Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells , then leave to come up to room temperature . |
| 28 | ‘ They benefit from me being here , but they appreciate that I go out to work occasionally , so it wo n't come as such a shock to them when I start to build up to going back to work properly ’ . |
| 29 | I know from my own life of faith that my thoughts , my words and my often fail to match up to the Christian ideal there is much that I do that hurts other people and there is much that I do that does not reflect Christ . |
| 30 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |