Example sentences of "and [vb past] up to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester .
2 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
3 The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero .
4 James got the address out of Ginny and drove up to Plumford yesterday afternoon .
5 When it was all over we all squeezed into Steve 's van and drove up to Dingwalls , the club in Camden .
6 So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 .
7 The woman opened the gate and came up to Kee .
8 We know you hired a boat , ’ he said , ‘ straight away after you came out of prison , and came up to Oban .
9 Emmie got a chair and climbed up to Mo 's nest .
10 Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 .
11 When he reached the bottom of the stairs , he turned and called up to Maisie .
12 Notice boards should be interesting , informative and kept up to date .
13 He is saying that he is not in favour of NATO 's present policy of maintaining adequate sub-strategic forces based in Europe and of ensuring that they are maintained and kept up to date .
14 Once again , an outstanding book has been produced and kept up to date . "
15 And when , towards the July gloaming , the royal-standard party arrived back and proceeded up to Berwick Castle with , even at a distance , an air of triumph unmistakable , the watchers ' hearts sank .
16 I had just passed my RAF selection and went up to Soho with a couple of mates to celebrate .
17 Then she turned , was shrouded in darkness , and went up to bed .
18 Bernard in a state of disgust , left the proceedings early and went up to bed .
19 Carey left his room and went up to Ellwood 's .
20 I got back to Ingard House a bit after four o'clock , and went up to rooms 207–8 , the offices allotted to us for the purposes of our audit .
21 Then all of a sudden he left and went up to San Carlos and joined the reservation police as if to become Apache again ( Here they called him Tres Hombres , which I will try to tell you about later . )
22 He left school before the last lesson at three , went into town for pie and chips , got stocked up with coke and doughnuts for supper and went up to Firelight 's field .
23 Prices for Koons 's work start at $65,000 ( and went up to $250,000 at the Banality show ) , but there are plenty of takers .
24 On our side the bank was slow and grassy and sloped up to trees .
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