Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] up to " in BNC.
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1 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
2 | Tabkay says he does n't feel he has given anything up to be a Buddhist monk . |
3 | What is more , introducing PRP for nurses has added anything up to a billion dollars to administrative costs in the US public sector — a figure which may send shudders down the spine of Britain 's cost-conscious NHS . |
4 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
5 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
6 | Ms Fiona Reynolds of the Council for National Parks has kept me up to date with the progress of the EEC 's Agricultural Structures Review . |
7 | It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day — and in a car without a telephone . |
8 | However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing . |
9 | We can hint that a less honourable man could have ground her up to mincemeat . ’ |
10 | Newley must have put him up to it . |
11 | He left the road at the hairpin bend which would have taken him up to Albert Terrace and followed the path through the kissing-gate to the moor . |
12 | You see , if they wanted to know the truth beyond all doubt , they 'd have sent me up to Scotland , would n't they ? |
13 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
14 | Note how the horns , in the final chord , complete the harmony of the rest of the brass where it threatens to sound thin , having doubled it up to that point . |
15 | Well Mark you 'll have to make it up to some other time . |
16 | Ever since Julia had acknowledged that she needed Comfort 's help to make Anthony happy , Comfort had known that somehow she was going to have to make it up to Julia . |
17 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
18 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
19 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
20 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
21 | I had pushed it up to £25,000 . |
22 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
23 | Evelyn had wrought herself up to such a pitch that she was utterly unprepared for this turn of events . |
24 | Now , you may remember when we inspected his corpse , we noticed the water had soaked him up to his knees ? ’ |
25 | I 've had it up to here with this naivety . |
26 | ‘ I 've had it up to here with you , ’ said Thacker . |
27 | And if he wants to dabble in those really contentious issues then he 's got to say what he really thinks , because I 've had it up to f—ing here . ’ |
28 | Indeed , I 've had it up to here . |
29 | In any way , shape or form , I 've had it up to here with chickens ! ’ |
30 | She had drawn it up to her chin . |