Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If Britain finally signs up to the word ‘ irrevocable ’ , she will have crossed the Rubicon . |
| 32 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 33 | Though what you should do is , is , just walk up to the ball , that line through there . |
| 34 | Hundreds of new age travellers have already turned up to the site . |
| 35 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 36 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 37 | These incidents scarcely add up to a coherent narrative , and the chronology is uncertain . |
| 38 | These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so . |
| 39 | We just tie up to the Kilcharran , that 's all . ’ |
| 40 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 41 | A shepherd with his stick , solitary , was already wrapped up to the eyes in his striped poncho , the only true centre of his eccentric flock . |
| 42 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 43 | But this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and I 'm just coming up to a word I never can pronounce so you 're going to have to help me with this one . |
| 44 | If you wish to have separate UICs , simply copy the account you have already set up to a new UIC and VMS account name . |
| 45 | The clubface effortlessly squares up to the ball-to-target line for a straight ball flight . |
| 46 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 47 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 48 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 49 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 50 | Probably I 'd just go up to the pub but I ca n't be bothered . |
| 51 | Four companies have already signed up to the scheme , and the Centre has the capacity to look after three or four more — it has already had about 20 applications . |
| 52 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 53 | On top of the official fee of up to 10 yuan ( about $1 ) a term , many schools add on other charges , for repairing crumbling school buildings , topping up teachers ' meagre pay or buying books , which can easily add up to the equivalent of $10 a month . |
| 54 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 55 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 56 | Sure enough , we soon come up to a party of puffin and a single guillemot . |
| 57 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 58 | Yeah but they just comes up to the door and says to her we 're going away now . |
| 59 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 60 | ‘ But we were just working up to the knees and you 've still got $ 85,750 left on the meter . ’ |