Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 2 | In its critique of the project , known as Nina , the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex , says : I Only six papers a year were produced from research using the machine , whereas similar devices abroad were producing up to twice as many |
| 3 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 4 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 5 | Turkish helicopters and fighter planes were flown up to 5 km inside Iraq , and at least 24 alleged PKK bases were destroyed ; the government claimed on Aug. 16 that large quantities of arms , ammunition and documents had been seized during attacks at Kharkuk , in the Durji valley . |
| 6 | Grandmothers were looked up to and respected then . |
| 7 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 8 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 9 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 10 | The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes . |
| 11 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |
| 12 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 13 | They were written up to 37 years ago ; following them now could result in walkers , ‘ getting lost , trespassing or even being injured on over-used , badly eroded and now quite dangerous routes ’ . |
| 14 | Most were connected up to fluid intake tubes . |
| 15 | It must also have provided opportunities for men to meet regularly to discuss politics , and such discussions , and the attitude of those in the shires in times of crisis , may often have centred on how far they thought the king and his officials were living up to what was expected of them . |
| 16 | Standards ( 0.1 ml aliquots of the labelled cells ) were made up to 50 ml with water and distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in an identical container . |
| 17 | Standards ( 2% of the injected dose ) were made up to 200 ml with water and distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in a plastic container . |
| 18 | Supernatants were made up to 35% saturation with ammonium sulphate and the precipitated protein pellets dissolved in 0.2% original culture volume of resuspension buffer . |
| 19 | Is that right that you were a security guard before you were made up to reception manager . |
| 20 | Ceaseless rain made further progress impossible , not merely for the infantry , who were sinking up to their thighs in mud , but for the tanks held in readiness to exploit a breakthrough . |
| 21 | About 50000 tonnes were produced up to 1945 . |
| 22 | Between 1984 and 1988 , prices spiralled : Bunnys were fetching up to A$ 1,000,000 ; Glover 's ‘ Bath of Diana ’ fetched A$1,706,000 ( Sotheby 's Melbourne , April 1989 ) and Bond paid A$ 210,000 for Conrad Martens ' ‘ Woolloomooloo Farm ’ ( Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 24 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 25 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he drawled , ‘ I 'd probably be too surprised by coy looks from you to have any idea what they were leading up to . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But I was so sure you were leading up to saying it ! ’ |
| 28 | And by the spring of 1988 , the column inches devoted to her in Britain 's tabloids were adding up to miles . |
| 29 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 30 | But behind her she could hear , all over the bay , the scraps of men 's voices shouting , and the rumble of rollers as the ships were drawn up to safety , and the lowing and bleating of animals being driven uphill . |