Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it . |
| 2 | I think they just sucked up to David , and began to put the boot in really , quite unnecessarily and unfairly . |
| 3 | Yeah but they just comes up to the door and says to her we 're going away now . |
| 4 | These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so . |
| 5 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 6 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 7 | That , that 's , that 's more of a , and they 're doing very little to start with , and then they rapidly get up to their top speed , and they level out . |
| 8 | They usually build up to a God 's eye view of the causal processes slowly , starting from a simple relationship , imagining how it might be more complex , testing to see if that is in fact the case , and so on . |
| 9 | They also claim up to £70m in advertising revenue could be lost . |
| 10 | As well as confronting the child and recording its responses in the normal way , they also walked up to its surprised mother and noted how she behaved . |
| 11 | They also say up to £70m in advertising revenue could be lost . |
| 12 | They also work up to very high frequencies ( ∼50 MHz ) , because the heated wire exhibits negligible inductance , and are often used in the measurement of radio-frequency signals . |
| 13 | I wo n't go into detail about what they probably get up to . |
| 14 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 15 | Do they actually meet up to what we want ? |
| 16 | there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you . |
| 17 | Newly mounted cavalry , eighteen battalions of infantry and twenty-two cannon did not constitute an army , but they certainly added up to a threat . |