Example sentences of "up to [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've already built your holdings up to over a hundred houses , plus some useful parcels of land . |
| 2 | The car , already doing eight-five , roared up to over a hundred . |
| 3 | In a year , it 'll add up to over a hundred thousand pounds — if that happens the social services department says it 's budget will be so stretched it may be forced to make cuts in other areas . |
| 4 | It mounts up to over a thousand quid . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 6 | I can get back up to about a thirty eight now . |
| 7 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 8 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 9 | Oh yes , there were Well , all the erm boys from up to about the fifth form , in the old pupil-teachers training centre went , er was formed by joining that and school , they took boys from there . |
| 10 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 11 | Whatever you 're up to during the snowy season , a wonderful warm woolly makes the perfect winter wear . |
| 12 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 13 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |
| 14 | Which shows how little she knows about what I get up to in the small hours . |
| 15 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 16 | No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War . |
| 17 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
| 18 | How fast can you get up to in the green machine ? |