Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 2 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 3 | Neighbours reported hearing up to eight shots before the gunmen made off on foot . |
| 4 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 5 | He must have succeeded since by the end of the next day we 'd moved up to fifth place , and we got our permit to camp for two nights by the Colorado . |
| 6 | In 1981 IBM began using up to 8 tonnes of cyanide a week to extract silver ore from waste tips at the mine , having invested $1.4 million in extraction equipment . |
| 7 | At first , any hostility centred on the major new roads which would have to be ploughed across untouched farmland to carry extra traffic to the plant and the proposed hostel which threatened to inject up to 700 unmarried building workers into an isolated rural community . |
| 8 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |
| 9 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 10 | Following detailed studies to evaluate the feasibility of developing the field , a plan was compiled by LOPL which included drilling up to 11 more wells in the central area of the field . |
| 11 | Vital forensic evidence needed to convict up to 500 terrorist suspects is feared to have been wiped out . |
| 12 | He failed to live up to this amiable recipe , however , and there was considerable discussion of the issue , discursive rather than purposeful , before dinner . |
| 13 | The package aimed to provide up to 33 extra weeks of coverage to Americans who had exhausted the standard 26 weeks of benefits . |
| 14 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 15 | PEG precipitated templates can be sequenced from both ends , each read yielding up to 400 nt of highly accurate sequence ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 16 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 17 | More seriously , it was also alleged that senior public figures , including both government and opposition party officials , had received up to 40,000 million yen in payments from the Tokyo branch of the company . |
| 18 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Unemployment peaked at over two per cent in 1967 , then fell off , and Germany continued to absorb up to two million ‘ guest ’ workers from Turkey , Yugoslavia and elsewhere . |
| 21 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 22 | By 1987 , those figures had shot up to 2,870 cases of the use of knives in offences against the person and 4,630 cases where they were used in robberies — a huge increase . |
| 23 | A report published on Dec. 17 by the European Communities indicated that 9.9 per cent of European forests had suffered up to 25 per cent defoliation in the previous year . |
| 24 | The Turkish government declared that the security of its diplomats was threatened following the screening in March of a programme on West German television , which claimed that West German security services had uncovered up to 30 Turkish secret police , posing as diplomats , who were spying on the 1,500,000 Turks in West Germany . |
| 25 | Near the start there are a couple of pieces which Tolkien had written up to thirty years before , both rewritten a little for their new context : Frodo 's ‘ Man in the Moon ’ song in the Prancing Pony , Sam 's ‘ Rhyme of the Troll ’ near Weathertop . |
| 26 | Mr Giles Phillips , catchment control officer for the Thames areas , said that voluntary restraint had saved up to 10 per cent of water supplies . |
| 27 | It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck . |
| 28 | The casualty was now heading south west , and the swell had built up to some 20ft . |
| 29 | For nearly six months it had housed up to 100 people protesting against injustices ranging from human rights abuse , emigration restrictions and mistreatment by bureaucrats to unemployment , homelessness and low pensions . |
| 30 | The troops had advanced up to seven miles over a thirty mile front . |