Example sentences of "[verb] up to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 2 | Tommy 's record as a manager stands up to any scrutiny ; two championships , three Bass Cups , ten other trophies and regular jaunts to Europe . |
| 3 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 4 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 5 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 6 | However , for databases which fail to come up to that standard a new right to prevent unfair extraction is proposed . |
| 7 | the real feeling and we feel we 've got to come up to some sort of a standard . |
| 8 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
| 9 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 10 | The industry thus managed to maintain its freedom on this central aspect of commercial policy making , but its competence in living up to this challenge left much to be desired . |
| 11 | Walter Long was a country gentleman who played up to that image for all he was worth , using Henry Chaplin- " the squire — as his political model . |
| 12 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 13 | Blackgrass has built up to such levels in some of its traditional heavyland haunts that some cereal growers are now reporting severe problems in controlling it . |
| 14 | The casualty was now heading south west , and the swell had built up to some 20ft . |
| 15 | Do you feel up to some sightseeing ? ’ |
| 16 | But it 's not a fault if you , erm , sort of walk up to that ball and erm , do this , it 's not a fault . |
| 17 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 18 | The first author shows quite clearly that the idea of inference or mental perception is connected to an impression of " afterness " or subsequence , as are all the other uses with to which we have seen up to this point . |
| 19 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 20 | They originally lived in the home counties but came up to this area two years ago . |
| 21 | The project review dates are indicated by a vertical dotted line , and at this time a horizontal line is drawn beneath each bar to indicate the progress actually made up to that date . |
| 22 | The project review dates are indicated by a vertical dotted line , and at this time a horizontal line is drawn beneath each bar to indicate the progress actually made up to that date . |
| 23 | The book was certainly the most thorough document of a country made up to that point in time , and received accolades from all quarters . |
| 24 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 25 | A plan drawn up to this end by Foreign Ministers at a meeting on May 5 in Guatemala City was later embodied in the Tela agreement [ see below ] . |
| 26 | Look at all the erm cars going up to those houses up there look ! |
| 27 | This thought , of why Jasper consented to let her sleep here , instead of going up to another room , or asking her to go , made her mind swirl , as if it — her mind was nauseous . |
| 28 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
| 29 | Norman said that his day-dream was ‘ to walk up to any computer , plug in the card and have the terminal look and act like the one at home . ’ |
| 30 | According to European manager Rick Mellinger , ImageFlow is n't tightly-coupled to an application : instead , the client-server-based software links up to any application via an Application Programming Interface , enabling workflow processing to be separated from application processing . |