Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 2 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 3 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 4 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 5 | Maidstone had now stepped up to the bar beside Sandison but he still did not look to be at ease . |
| 6 | The price per set had however gone up to £6 . |
| 7 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 8 | She had never come up to my room before , in fact I 'd never seen her outside her own . |