Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 2 | In the ward you are lying there in pain , drugged up to the eyeballs . |
| 3 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 4 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 5 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 6 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 7 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 8 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 9 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 10 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 11 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 12 | Driving up to the gates of the camp , I saw my first legionnaire in parade uniform ; he was wearing a white képi , a green tie and blue cummerbund . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 14 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes . |
| 17 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 18 | Marketing is part of the media too , and much money and time is spent researching and showing how the media 's consumers — the readers and viewers — match up to the advertisers ' desired audience of consumers for his product . |
| 19 | In victory , Major sidled up to the MPs who voted for his rivals , including one-nation characters such as Chris Patten , Kenneth Clarke and William Waldegrave , who had rallied to the reassuring establishment figure of the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 20 | Living up to the principles |
| 21 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 22 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 23 | Juniors 11–14 Seniors 14–16 the Junior Section being stronger numerically than the Senior Section but several juniors will be moved up to the seniors after the Easter Break . |
| 24 | Juniors 11–14 Seniors 14–16 the Junior Section being stronger numerically than the Senior Section but several juniors will be moved up to the seniors after the Easter Break . |
| 25 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 26 | Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach . |
| 27 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 28 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 29 | ‘ Women like you turn my stomach ! ’ he grated harshly , and , clearly fed up to the teeth with her , ‘ I do n't know why I do n't just terminate your employment and get rid of you ! ’ |
| 30 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |