Example sentences of "was [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 4 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 5 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 6 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 7 | She barely had time to struggle to her feet before cruel fingers tangled in her hair and her face was jerked up to the light . |
| 8 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 9 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 10 | It was a comparatively fine day , and a table was drawn up to the window . |
| 11 | Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral . |
| 12 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 13 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 14 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 15 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 16 | And his finger was pointing up to the ceiling . |
| 17 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |
| 18 | The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through . |
| 19 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 20 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 21 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 22 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 23 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 24 | He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him . |
| 25 | I sat on it , and was pulled up to the island . |
| 26 | Born in 1754 , Murdock was brought up to the trade of his father who was a millwright and miller . |
| 27 | As the younger one was reaching up to the mantlepiece with the flowers , her frock caught fire ; her sister ran to her aid , and soon both girls were engulfed in the flames . |
| 28 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 29 | However , the implementation of the Declaration was left up to the relevant ministers and as of early 1990 political parties , trade unions , strikes , civil marriage , divorce and gambling were still not permitted . |
| 30 | Artemis much preferred things that were real , such as the injured squirrel she had rescued and nursed back to health , and her pet hen Jemima whose broken leg she and Rosie had mended , and who every now and then was allowed up to the nursery . |