Example sentences of "up to [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , read what that council has got up to over the past four years , you will appreciate fully , just as people in Hackney do , just how shameful the record is . |
| 2 | Tell me , Tom Hanks , what 's the worst thing they could get up to between the pair of ‘ em ? ’ |
| 3 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 4 | See for yourself what Carr got up to with the sun on his back in an exhibition of his paintings on the continent . |
| 5 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 6 | up to about the age of fourteen . |
| 7 | Cos it 's I was good up to around the window . |
| 8 | The inner ring comprised the older areas built up to around the turn of the century , which because of their high density and lack of open space required ‘ decentralizing ’ , involving 415,000 persons . |
| 9 | Not now anyway , though God knows what they got up to in the past . |
| 10 | If you sometimes wish you had eyes in the back of your head to see exactly what the children are getting up to in the back of the car , you 'll be pleased to hear about The Lane Changer from Automotive . |
| 11 | She says that goodness knows what you could get up to in the back of it ! |
| 12 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
| 13 | His face is black , whatever do you get up to in the car ? |
| 14 | Sooner or later this burden will have to be faced up to in the form of higher taxation either now or in the future . |
| 15 | And of these fourteen families , two returned their cheques , with quite a lot of ceremony , to BP Coal once they discovered what in fact BP Coal were up to in the district ’ . |
| 16 | They refused to reveal what they had each been up to in the States . |
| 17 | Dot used to have Gloria to snuggle up to in the dark . |
| 18 | Paula said slyly , ‘ I might just tell Mum what you and Edward get up to in the pictures . ’ |
| 19 | ’ What worries me is what they 'll get up to by the time we get to the competitions , and they 're a bit bevvied . ’ |