Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this day he was all action , stepping right up to Nick and thumping him hard . |
| 2 | This assumes that patterns and trends which can be identified in past ( historical ) sets of data may be projected forward , especially under stable economic , market and organisational conditions , for the purpose of forecasting perhaps up to one year ahead . |
| 3 | He did n't want Mrs Wright driving right up to his house . |
| 4 | Walking thoughtfully up to her room , she sat on the bed . |
| 5 | ‘ Your book ? ’ she enquired , doubtfully , angry with herself for allowing domesticity to prevent her from keeping more up to date with the literary news . |
| 6 | Underwriting can be expensive , representing sometimes up to two per cent of the issue proceeds , and the underwriting costs normally depend on the length of the time period from the date of the announcement of the rights issue until such time as the offer closes . |
| 7 | ( The Air Atlantique DC–3 did so on the Sunday , sinking nearly up to the hubs of its main gear ! ) |
| 8 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a boat coming up the river now , ’ said John , ‘ but she may be going right up to Ipswich … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , I would n't let you , you 'd say thank you very much , the fees are this price , and I 'd like a nice flat of my own with carpets going right up to the wall and no counting how much electric fire we use . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Starting with Jefferson Airplane and The MC5 and going right up to Sonic Youth and Hüsker Dü , it 's never worked . |
| 12 | Your going right up to the top are n't you ? |
| 13 | Clean the There used to be huge stocks leading right up to Mapperley Pit , of this slag and stuff , and they sold all that off , and er that was the year that fought and Al broke his thumb on him . |
| 14 | They played gallantly , leading right up to the final game , and going down on 836 . |
| 15 | Pull out leftwards from beneath the overhang to gain a groove , followed by a crack , leading directly up to a big ledge . |
| 16 | ‘ If she 's downstairs when I get home , I 'm going straight up to my bedroom ! ’ |
| 17 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |
| 18 | At Easter 1939 , with Europe once more in the grip of events leading remorselessly up to the Second World War , Leeds Deaf F.C . |
| 19 | Moving right up to date , Johnny is now signed to Virgin 's Point Blank label , and his first release — titled ‘ Let Me In ’ — has already been nominated for a Grammy award . |
| 20 | Moving right up to date , Andres Gomez scored a popular point for Ecuador in 1990 , while the two most recent Grand Slam debutants were Monica Seles , who first won the French title in the same year and who retained it last year , and the current men 's title holder , the American Jim Courier . |
| 21 | Then the Line itself-supply trenches angling cautiously up to an elaborate hem-stitch of Allied positions , with the wire lying beyond , scruffy and irregular , a tide mark in no-man 's land . |
| 22 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 23 | The Berry-Hill Gallery , in recent years Vicente 's New York dealer , has arranged a ninetieth birthday celebration for Vicente this month in the form of a retrospective spanning five decades of his work and coming right up to and into the Nineties . |
| 24 | Luke taunted softly , coming right up to the desk behind which she stood , having risen instinctively when Penny had told her he was here — a betrayal , she knew , but she could not have faced him sitting down . |
| 25 | He suggested taking £240,000 out of council balances after criticising the ruling Liberal Democrat administration for spending right up to the Government 's capping limit . |
| 26 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 27 | ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position … |
| 28 | Fen did n't answer , but instead of continuing straight up to the house he took a fork in the drive which then wound its way around the perimeter of the grounds , inside the high boundary walls . |
| 29 | An alternative procedure yields rafts of trophectodermal epithelium from the mural region of the blastocyst , and involves forming " giant " blastocysts by aggregating together up to 10 morulae as described in Section 3.3 . |
| 30 | The firm has six employees and many were taking home up to £165 a week , but all have agreed to draw just £100 . |