Example sentences of "[verb] up to [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her daughter Anna is now ten and has moved up to her next school . |
| 2 | THE Marquess of Blandford was today waking up to his first full day in London 's Pentonville Prison , facing all but nine hours of it ‘ banged up ’ . |
| 3 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 4 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 5 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 6 | Now he 's facing up to his first week without work in 36 years |
| 7 | Dickens ' timeless story , now coming up to its 146th Christmas , has been adapted with affection by David Holman and directed with dash by Gwenda Hughes . |
| 8 | And then David Evans coming up to me last month and actually admitting it had changed him , that evening . ) |
| 9 | Well that would certainly be my favourite , we we 'll be coming up to our hundredth anniversary are n't we fairly soon ? |
| 10 | Dad had been improving daily — he was eating well , in good spirits and coming up to his eightieth birthday . |
| 11 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 12 | Mozart was then coming up to his eighteenth birthday , but already a mature master , and No 29 is both a great symphony and an enchantingly beautiful one . |
| 13 | No , you 're just coming up to your first round . |
| 14 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 15 | " I 'll go up to him first if you like . " |
| 16 | ‘ One of the actors come up to me last week , and he says : ‘ I 'm having real trouble with my April . ’ |