Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the party is over members of the bridal party , and guests , may want to go up to the speakers and personally thank them , complimenting them on a good , amusing speech . |
| 2 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 3 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 4 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 5 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 6 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 7 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 8 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 9 | ‘ I am sorry to interrupt your cosy chat , Martin , but Daddy 's dying to go up to the bar for a drink and we 've promised to stop by Carolyn Roach 's house later on . ’ |
| 10 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 11 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 12 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 13 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 14 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 15 | ‘ I really ought to try to get up to the farm to fetch our Carrie down . ’ |
| 16 | Does he further agree that the Labour party wants to sign up to the social chapter only in order to regain its power by having beer and sandwiches at No. 10 ? |
| 17 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 18 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 19 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 20 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 21 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
| 22 | I 'd like to go up to the house . |
| 23 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 24 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 25 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 26 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 27 | A : Well , I suppose I would — that would be the ideal situation , but I think you 've got to face up to the reality of the whole thing . |
| 28 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 29 | We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports . |
| 30 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |