Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 2 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 3 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 4 | I have done this myself , to ideal effect , getting into the car on a sunless July morning and driving up to the road tunnel of Bielsa , some dozen miles beyond Saint-Lary . |
| 5 | I remember driving up to the Hall one evening about three weeks before he died . |
| 6 | Her imagination visualised Luke — always an early riser — driving up to the house and immediately recognising Richard 's car parked outside . |
| 7 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 8 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 9 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 10 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 11 | The surfaced road ends at Sadgill from where it continues as a rough enclosed trackway , climbing up to the head of the valley . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’ |
| 13 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 14 | The problem was often of living up to the construction of masculinity . |
| 15 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 16 | I 'm tempted to suggest the Mercedes S-class for being visually boring , but I respect Bruno Sacco too much , so I 'll plump for any current Maserati for not living up to the legend . |
| 17 | NAPIER UNIVERSITY — LIVING UP TO THE TITLE ‘ NAE PEER ’ |
| 18 | They may be retained there for days or weeks before swimming up to the top of the tract and fertilising an egg . |
| 19 | If you approach a pond where these birds are nesting , they will all come swimming up to the bank nearest to you . |
| 20 | and there 's no facilities for kids , you know young kids ranging up to the age of er about sixteen seventeen . |
| 21 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 22 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 23 | ‘ Lot of paper in tonight , is n't there ? ’ said Bartlemas , looking up to the Circle and Gallery . |
| 24 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 25 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 26 | Now America is the hottest market ; institutions that find Wall Street overvalued are waking up to the attraction of overseas investment . |
| 27 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 28 | But whatever the motive , international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business . |
| 29 | People are now waking up to the fact that the natural world is our primary source and has got to be conserved if man is to continue . |
| 30 | Amidst all this shaking and trembling , respectable opinion was also waking up to the fact that new forms of life and organisation had emerged among the working class — both in a political , cultural and material sense . |