Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 2 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 3 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 4 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 5 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 6 | So at the moment with the earning that they paid you up to date two hundred and fifty quid I ca n't give you reduced advice under the legal aid system at the moment because you 're still being paid . |
| 7 | Because you turned it up to number five and it was pale . |
| 8 | Beuno swung it up to eye-level . |
| 9 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 10 | Some of the people I interviewed became informants , who kept me up to date on those phases of West End life with which they were familiar . |
| 11 | These , at least until recently , hardly kept them up to date at all with stock market developments . |
| 12 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 13 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 14 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 15 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 16 | I made a short story of the business and sent it up to Encounter , but the puritanical buggers in charge sent me a rejection slip ! |
| 17 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
| 18 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 19 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 20 | for an insulation company and we were on a Government funding and money ran out and it took us up to Christmas really and after Christmas we were out of work for four months |
| 21 | ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’ |
| 22 | We got it up to date recently , but it was a major job and it always slips back , so . |
| 23 | Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness . |