Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said something like that , they seemed fairly relaxed erm now what numbering is is this one that there would be any value opening up to others for the whole thing |
| 2 | Stuart had been more aware of their existence this year , walking up to lectures at the university , going through the Grassmarket or the gardens , seeing drab figures squatting on the stone steps , or standing outside the hotel in the evening by the vents from the kitchen where the steam formed vapour clouds and it was possible to inhale the smell of food with the intensity of a drug . |
| 3 | Social phenomena have a disconcerting habit of climbing up to positions of eminence from which they conveniently repudiate their humble origins ; we must not be misled by this . |
| 4 | James in particular , the man earmarked as the lynchpin in the tactical plan , was not living up to expectations . |
| 5 | Or is it women who are calling the shots — weary of living up to men 's fantasies , preferring instead to watch actresses they can identify with , both physically and emotionally ? |
| 6 | She began to be what is termed ‘ a public nuisance ’ going up to strangers , not begging under the terms of the act but importuning them to help her get her daughter back . |
| 7 | so I 'm stuck for the next three weeks and half a week because I , you know I get the , August bank holiday I get two days , saying that they 're probably going up to Grans for a week in the holidays er sometime to stay with her particularly with her being on her own as well this year |
| 8 | After the holidays she would be going up to Guides . |
| 9 | This is a tall plant growing up to 18ins ( 46cms ) . |
| 10 | A plant with a dense , stout rootstock which has very long , lance-shaped , corrugated or crinkly , bright to deep green leaves , growing up to 18ins ( 46cms ) long . |
| 11 | A horizontally-growing , cylindrical rhizome of about 1 inch ( 2½cms ) in diameter , produces a plant with translucent , bright green , very wavy , long , ribbon-like leaves , growing up to 24ins ( 60cms ) in length . |
| 12 | According to Dr Judith Haynes of the educational psychologists ' group Child Consultants , the crucial thing is for parents to gain the child 's co-operation in establishing a revision regime in the weeks leading up to examinations . |
| 13 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 14 | And by the spring of 1988 , the column inches devoted to her in Britain 's tabloids were adding up to miles . |
| 15 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 16 | The stocking rate , for a fish only aquarium , is 1″ of fish for every 4 gallons nett ( 20″ in your case ) in the first six months , building up to 1″ for every 2 gallons over the next month ( 40″ for your tank ) . |
| 17 | San Jose-based Chips & Technologies Inc has come out with a universal input-output controller with a parallel port to accelerate printing under Microsoft Corp Windows and other graphic user interfaces : called the 82C735 , the controller looks after the printing with Printgine , an enhanced bi-directional parallel port interface that can transfer data at a rate claimed to be 100 times faster than existing systems , sending up to 2M-bytes per second of data to printers , scanners , local area networks , tape back-up systems and other peripherals connected to a parallel port . |
| 18 | Moving up to Pikes Crag , another pinnacle , known as Buckbarrow Needle , has a fine E1 5b up its front face — the obviously named Needle Front . |
| 19 | If you will be moving up to Guides soon , why not try and find out about the Company you will be joining ? |
| 20 | Brownies who will soon be moving up to Guides have a brand new magazine to look forward to . |
| 21 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 22 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 23 | But facing up to conflicts and difficulties throughout marriage , be it in the early years or later , is the way of growth and strength . |
| 24 | Now I had to start " facing up to things " again . |
| 25 | Those who like Jenny in our case-study find themselves avoiding conflict at all costs , never facing up to issues , never expressing hurt or anger for fear of what it might release in others , need to do some work on this point . |
| 26 | Local authorities have been notoriously lax in projecting aims and policies and facing up to weaknesses . |
| 27 | That must have been why his father walked out , the mixture of laughter and humiliation , of not coming up to expectations . |
| 28 | The Giraffe cat is an interesting looking fish reaching up to 36″ ( 90cm ) , but not often above 18″ ( 45cm ) . |
| 29 | Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them . |
| 30 | STANDING UP TO EARTHQUAKES |