Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better go up to my office . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd better go up to my room , Your Majesty . |
| 3 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 4 | You 'd better go up to you 're yeah it 's good . |
| 5 | I 'd better live up to tradition and carry you over the threshold ! ’ |
| 6 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 7 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 8 | An independent report found that many of the plants did not match up to European safety standards , burned high sulphur coal , and were badly sited . |
| 9 | Alistair did not go up to Leeds for the weekend . |
| 10 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 11 | Dermot joined me at Magdalen for my fourth year at Oxford ; Roddy did not go up to Oxford until the year after I had left . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 13 | The assertion , by Mr Guy Woodall , 37 , of Leatherhead , Surrey , that his sparkling British drink was the 400-year-old tradition known as elderflower champagne did not stand up to analysis , said counsel Mr Nicolas Bragge . |
| 14 | Assessment shows that the rhetoric of community involvement did not stand up to examination in the way that bids were compiled . |
| 15 | Nevertheless Dynamius accused Theodore of plotting against Guntram , had him arrested and sent to the king for trial ; again the accusations did not stand up to scrutiny . |
| 16 | Although the apex of the pitched roof of this wing was 6.5m ( 21ft ) above floor level , unlike the arrangement that applies at Shawell school , the internal space did not extend up to the roof ridge-board . |
| 17 | Thank you for doing a talk I did not feel up to . |
| 18 | Julia did not feel up to assessing the likelihood of that just then . |
| 19 | Theodora did not feel up to framing one . |
| 20 | Then the ‘ Empire ’ roller bearings evidently did not live up to expectations and were replaced by plain axle boxes . |
| 21 | The tide finally turned in favour of the hosts when Vancouver-Fraser Valley , with former Canada scrum-half Ian Stuart and World Cup no.8 Glenn Ennis the only capped players in view , defeated Northumberland 18–14 in another game that did not live up to expectations . |
| 22 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 23 | Mandru expected the best from his Ixmaritians and would sell one without a thought if they did not live up to his requirements . |
| 24 | The jeep undoubtedly did not live up to her new image . |
| 25 | For all its sincerity , the play did not live up to the promise of its finely drawn characters and the Manchester Guardian called it ‘ a mildly glum artistic failure ’ . |
| 26 | A good showing by Lyles put them into second place on 233 points while Reyburns , one of the fancied teams , did not live up to expectations and finished third on 210 points . |
| 27 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 28 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 29 | He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died . |
| 30 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |