Example sentences of "up to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In granting assistance the Commissioner will always indicate the extent of that assistance-for example , up to which particular stage in any current or prospective court proceedings it will be available . |
| 2 | In this way Burma can win an honoured place in the United Nations and live up to her recognised standards of charity and hospitality . |
| 3 | It was n't up to her usual standard — she would have to start again . |
| 4 | ‘ It means , ’ he explained , ‘ that Caroline — an inveterate matchmaker — is n't up to her usual tricks . |
| 5 | As the girl tilted her face up to her tall mother her hat fell off and , the mother 's fingers clasping the head , the hair came loose and fell down the black coat like a cascade of shining water , as soft-looking as a swathe of new mown grass . |
| 6 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |
| 7 | Because the way the English drive , on the wrong side , with the brim — ’ and to illustrate her point , Madame put a hand up to her right eye , ‘ with the brim comme ça they can not see the oncoming traffic ! ’ |
| 8 | If she was n't quite up to her other team-mates , her presence there vastly increased her father 's generosity . |
| 9 | The jeep undoubtedly did not live up to her new image . |
| 10 | Yet whatever common sense suggested or arithmetic dictated , I half-believed these were the children of the women Rosa had tried so hard to have live up to her Spartacist ideals . |
| 11 | She walks up to her front door , a picture of sophistication in her Armani suit . |
| 12 | Don Peters had been pleasantly surprised to find the Prime Minister 's forthright manner lived up to her advance publicity . |
| 13 | Happily , with some strong thigh 'd bargemen ; Or one o'th' wood-yard , that can quoit the sledge Or toss the bar , or else some lovely squire That carries coals up to her privy lodgings … . |
| 14 | His eyes raked from her slender tanned legs over the V-neck of her short black dress , and on up to her flushed cheeks , and the blonde strands of hair escaping her neat bun . |
| 15 | These she had made up to her exact requirements , with precisely the right number of holes , by an exclusive shop in Knightsbridge . |
| 16 | He closed the door behind him , and Shelley stood in the hall for a long time , one hand up to her untidy hair where Miguel had ruffled it . |
| 17 | AUDREY HEPBURN is up to her cat-like eyes in murder and dirty double crossing in this clever comedy thriller that has become a film classic . |
| 18 | The nettles were bolder , they bravely marched right up to her very door bringing their friends the docks with them . |
| 19 | As she read her right hand strayed up to her left breast . |
| 20 | But the Megarian decrees were seen , with justification , as Athenian aggression , and Corinth , remembering the 460s , must have thought Athens was up to her old intrigues . |
| 21 | ‘ Then we heard she 'd lost her job and was up to her old tricks , going out to dances and things . ’ |
| 22 | For example , how does the quality of her environment , as she perceives it , now come up to her initial expectations ? |
| 23 | The role of the lonely outsider with an aching heart but crusty exterior is this time taken by Irish actress Brenda Fricker , grimed up to her red eyeballs as a bag lady with a pigeon fetish . |
| 24 | She drew herself up to her full height , hands on hips ; quite a figure . |
| 25 | So , ’ she drew herself up to her full height , her tight black dress clasping her full figure as though the material was pasted to her , ‘ so , ’ she repeated , ‘ I opened it to check the photograph and saw it was Ed Riverton 's . |
| 26 | Pulling herself up to her full height , Sarah glared at her . |
| 27 | Outraged , Comfort looked at the woman , drew herself up to her full height , looked down her beaky nose and began to cross the road towards the waiting taxi . |
| 28 | She drew herself up to her full height . |
| 29 | She drew herself up to her full height . |
| 30 | Looking very much like the arrogant duchess he had once accused her of being , despite her wet and muddy state , she drew herself up to her full height , and stated with flat finality , ‘ You can both do as you please regarding the land . |