Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 2 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 3 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 4 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 5 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 6 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 7 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 8 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 9 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 10 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 11 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 13 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 14 | It 's a wonderful surprise to turn the corner , just yards away from the mayhem of the chairlift , and find yourself in wide , sweeping moorland , gently inclining up to the ridge . |
| 15 | All countries possess an armoury of policy weapons that together add up to a policy regime . |
| 16 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 17 | For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn . |
| 18 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 19 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |
| 20 | In recession large firms concentrate more output within their own plant where economies of scale yield lower average costs compared to labour intensive subcontractors The advantages of a flexible industrial structure was greatly assisted up to the 1970s by a protected home market which gave companies a secure domestic base . |
| 21 | Valves of drysuits freeze up if pressed for too long , and a careless diver in a drysuit may find himself suddenly hurtling up to the surface , with potentially fatal consequences . |
| 22 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 23 | Reimbursement of additional hotel and travelling expenses necessarily incurred up to a maximum of £300 to reach the booked destination in the event of the Insured Person arriving at the U.K. departure point too late to commence the booked holiday as a result of the failure of public transport services or due to an accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 24 | Too often , noise has meant a level plane of abraded texture , which can merely add up to a different kind of blandness , a sense-dulling consistency . |
| 25 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 26 | The loss of that money is resented by at least one member of the England Committee , who told me : ‘ Our football in Sweden was the worst in my lifetime , but we should be strong enough to face up to the situation . |
| 27 | Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval . |
| 28 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 29 | So I guess I owe you an apology , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ although when you walked in through the kitchen door , all dressed up to the nines after being with Ryan , I wanted anything but to forgive you . ’ |
| 30 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |