Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 2 | ‘ She was wondering what they were going to get up to next . |
| 3 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 4 | All these major brewing companies were required to release up to 50 per cent of the public houses they owned , in excess of 2,000 outlets . |
| 5 | On the basis of the first computer projections after polling stations closed last night , the alliance of the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centre-right Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) was expected to win up to 85 per cent of the 577 parliamentary seats with just 40 per cent of the votes . |
| 6 | He was told to go up to Cambridge , despite a shortfall of £60 in his funds , and that his college would do its utmost to ensure that he could carry on with his studies . |
| 7 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 8 | ‘ Duw , course I will , ’ Hari said firmly though she had no idea how she was going to live up to her word . |
| 9 | After a shower she put it on with a frown , worried that it really was going to live up to her expectations , teamed up with seamed black tights and her new black slingback shoes . |
| 10 | Erm er , very concerned as to what it was going to lead up to up , and hoping , you know , against hope that 's you were n't going to be involved in anything like that . |
| 11 | Mm so he was going to go up to . |
| 12 | He was going to face up to his mother when he got home and have it out . |
| 13 | I was waiting to go up to university and had just got a job as a prep-school master . |
| 14 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 15 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 16 | She was having to face up to the confusion in her : that she was married to a man she loved but there was this ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Was it that , at last , he was learning to face up to himself ? |
| 18 | Beginning in 1991 , the government was authorized to allocate up to $500 million a year until the total liability of approximately $1,250 million was paid in compensation for losses incurred in the forced relocation of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans in camps throughout the American west . |
| 19 | The BBC 's local stations were kept at 20 , and the IBA was authorized to licence up to 60 , reaching much the same total percentage audience . |
| 20 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 21 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 22 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 23 | By the time he had completed his forty-second plate he was forced to face up to his inadequacies as a business man . |
| 24 | The mine 's formal closure was a severe blow to the country 's economy as it was estimated to provide up to 20 per cent of government revenue and some 40 per cent of the country 's export earnings ; in formulating the 1990 budget , the government had assumed the mine 's reopening by the end of 1989 . |