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 .
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