Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 2 | To ensure continuity and to give more necessary practice ( further consolidation ) , appropriate homework or a task should be given at the end of each lesson , or at least once or twice a week , depending on the amount of time the student is able or prepared to give up to home study . |
| 3 | Decided to move up to town . |
| 4 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 5 | The story is brought bang up to date with chapters on the Falklands conflict and the more recent Gulf War . |
| 6 | At a time when even Tufty wears trainers and a shell suit , road safety has been brought bang up to date . |
| 7 | Professor Sloman has brought spelling up to date except where this would involve changes in pronunciation , accentuation and capitalization . |
| 8 | Vic Burton , the current Deputy Mayor , is set to step up to Mayor , while Coun Brian Smith is to become his deputy . |
| 9 | This must have been agreed , as on 22 February , Major-General Galloway of MEHQ wrote to Eighth Army Headquarters to inform them that after the next series of operations , L Detachment would be withdrawn to re-form up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit . |
| 10 | Jinny swallowed her rage and tried to forget that she had wanted to go up to Back Clough Dale today . |
| 11 | It is strongly recommended that after this operation the unit should be allowed to reform up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit , and it should not be required to operate again before May . |
| 12 | They are all newly married , with small babies who are allowed to stay up to dinner to talk amusingly about sex . |
| 13 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 14 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 15 | Well this conference has been assembled to bring up to date our information concerning the position of human genes in the human chromosomes . |