Example sentences of "[vb base] up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 2 | Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’ |
| 3 | IN A WARM UP TO THE EVENING Standard newspaper 's five a side football competition , a team from Guinness Brewing GB called the Harp Beaters was entered into the preliminary competition on the day before the main tournament . |
| 4 | Some questions to see how you match up to the job |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’ |
| 7 | Light is cast on the customs of contemporary devotion by the instruction not " climb up to the cross " to kiss Christ 's feet in tears of penitence but to do it in his heart . |
| 8 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |
| 9 | This leads to Nan Bield Pass , from here walk up to the top of High Street . |
| 10 | Though what you should do is , is , just walk up to the ball , that line through there . |
| 11 | It 's fairly important that as , when you walk up to the ball you 're body is in line with , where you want to be . |
| 12 | If , instead of ( 29 ) , I say ( 30 ) , then I direct you to pay particular attention and care to each of the operations involved in doing ( 29 ) , this being an implicature of the use of the longer expression : ( 29 ) Open the door ( 30 ) Walk up to the door , turn the door handle clockwise as far as it will go , and then pull gently towards you But perhaps the most important of the sub-maxims of Manner is the fourth , " be orderly " . |
| 13 | Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach . |
| 14 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 15 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |
| 16 | We just tie up to the Kilcharran , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 18 | No details yet ( although a possible game against Italy has been mooted ) however , and it seems the national side may not have an engagement before they square up to the World Champions in November — gross score from the last two encounters being Wales 9 Australia 101 . |
| 19 | Open up to the possibility of how closed your mind is |
| 20 | and again face up to the top and there you 've got a bandage , okay ? |
| 21 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 22 | Face up to the fact now that you simply can not keep altering the trim to suit every speed or situation that you may encounter . |
| 23 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 24 | Face up to the fats |
| 25 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 26 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 27 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ These shocking figures add up to the misery of lives going to waste , skills left unused and hopes being dashed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb . |
| 30 | On the night before , he had watched from his perch on a pile of stones the four verderers ride up to the Tower from the far side of the Waste … |