Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 2 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 3 | The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes . |
| 4 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 5 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 6 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 7 | They were going up to the we call it . |
| 8 | Were going up to the test match at the Oval , Clive likes that . |
| 9 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 10 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 11 | where they were , Howard and Pete right were coming up to the erm football |
| 12 | They were brought up to the drawbridge-end . |
| 13 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 14 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 15 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 16 | By 1975 the Worcester project was ‘ well under way ’ , and by 1979 all the beds and hospital places , which were provided up to the prescribed national levels proportional to the catchment population , had been opened . |
| 17 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 18 | Results from the array of 21 sediment cores ( in gm -2 yr -1 ) were scaled up to the entire lake using Thiessen polygons . |
| 19 | Also , unsecured creditors will often be deterred from seeking a winding-up since such creditors would readily appreciate the futility of such action where the company 's assets were charged up to the hilt . |
| 20 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 21 | The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody . |
| 22 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 23 | The decks were cleared ; sailors began to run like monkeys up the rigging unfurling the great sail , while two more were sent up to the stern-castle to manage the huge tiller . |
| 24 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 25 | It was still in the days when airmen 's tunics were buttoned UP to the neck . |
| 26 | The principles of training laid down by Stirling differed from those in the Commandos , where a group of volunteers , once recruited , were nursed up to the required standard . |
| 27 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 28 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 29 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 30 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |