Example sentences of "up [to-vb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't let her get to you , ’ a voice murmured at her side , and she looked up to see one of the other actors , a tall good-looking young man called Gavin James . |
| 2 | At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair . |
| 3 | The four-bed unit at pioneering Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge , was set up to treat some of the worst brain-damaged and head injury cases in the country . |
| 4 | Community action agencies , run by boards elected from the residents of poor communities , were set up to administer many of the " war on poverty " schemes . |
| 5 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 6 | He went to back to work in the factory in the big cabinet making factory , and there was a fire and he went up to help some of the girls and he was trapped in the lift . |
| 7 | This is a superb funboard training resort from June into September , and we run RYA coaching courses up to level 4 throughout the season . |
| 8 | Yet , ironically , while the hereditary Lords try to restrain the elected dictatorship of a Tory government , the Labour party is gearing up to do away with the strange mechanisms underpinning this power to check . |
| 9 | It 's the first such building to be bought by a new trust which has been set up to protect some of the country 's loveliest old places of worship . |
| 10 | National parties of various complexions were set up to represent many of the minorities — from Letts in the north to Armenians and Georgians in the south , and above all the Poles . |
| 11 | Kring leapt past his guard and , although the dragonlord 's sword jerked up to deflect most of the force , the result was a thin red line across its master s torso . |
| 12 | The school had been selected to participate in a research project set up to test some of the recommendations of the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) , and had chosen to use the extra finance from this project to institute a number of residencies for artists , writers , musicians , etc . |