Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Living up to the principles |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | WAKING up to the rhythms of marimba music on the radio seems a pleasant enough thought . |
| 5 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 6 | The Arts : Waking up to the terrors of the night TELEVISION |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going up to the attics . ’ |
| 8 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 9 | Oh cos I 'm going up to the doctors as you know . |
| 10 | A special accolade for Stefan , that prodigy of a man who virtually single-handed got everything together on time , and then , just as he was about to go through the orchestra door he saw Madge Grimsilk , the headdress of a rat under her arm , hurrying up to the wings . |
| 11 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 12 | And she saw the big staircases leading up to the libraries and the lecture halls . |
| 13 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 14 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 15 | There was a grand marble staircase , spiralling up to the eaves and the upper areas of the casino . |
| 16 | One week before an election , they start cuddling up to the Liberals for support . |
| 17 | Cuddling up to the Liberals is like leaning on candy floss . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ One week before a general election , they start cuddling up to the Liberals for support . |
| 19 | Cuddling up to the Liberals is like leaning on candy floss . ’ |
| 20 | Already as a subaltern , when most of his contemporaries , mindful of where lay the springs of promotion in the Third Republic , were assiduously sucking up to the politicians , Pétain had the audacity to place a reservist Deputy under arrest for some minor military infringement . |
| 21 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 22 | To film arctic foxes facing up to the rigours of approaching winter . |
| 23 | Other commentators , such as Barnett ( 1986 ) , place a greater emphasis on the interweaving influence of economic decline and political ineptitude that , even in the 1930s , prevented governments from facing up to the constraints imposed by the vested interests of major corporations and trade unions . |
| 24 | You can imagine the trauma of facing up to the realities of our competition . |
| 25 | Despite what Dane had said about facing up to the ghosts in her past and laying them to rest , it seemed she was still to be haunted by them . |
| 26 | Facing up to the alternatives |
| 27 | As with any situation , facing up to the facts , confronting and questioning your fears can help . |
| 28 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 29 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |
| 30 | She knew , however , that her mother could be relied upon to have fastened up the hens before coming up to the Oaks ' farm for the supper , so she settled her fears . |