Example sentences of "have [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean Alan has to go up to London ! |
| 2 | Exploration in Middle Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks north of Wadebridge in north Cornwall has located up to 1 g/t Au associated with quartz-arsenopyrite veins ( MRP 103 ) . |
| 3 | Earlier this year Sam , who has earned up to £500,000 a year from her work , was named as Britain 's 179th richest woman . |
| 4 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 5 | Well , I know the Queen has come up to Buckingham Palace , for the Season . |
| 6 | Somebody has to stand up to these scum . ’ |
| 7 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 8 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 9 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 10 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 11 | North Korea has secretly produced more plutonium ( from which nuclear weapons can be made ) than it has owned up to ; it is suspected of building a bomb , despite its NPT promise not to do so . |
| 12 | It 's very agreeable to be able to reach down and offer someone a helping hand — particularly someone he has looked up to for so long . |
| 13 | A generation of Tibetans has grown up to whom the Dalai Lama , who since 1959 has lived in India , is a remote figure . |
| 14 | For Pat junior has grown up to be a hunky , muscular , six foot two . |
| 15 | Blackgrass has built up to such levels in some of its traditional heavyland haunts that some cereal growers are now reporting severe problems in controlling it . |
| 16 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 17 | When the marsh has built up to an elevation such that it is covered only by the highest tides , it is usually reclaimed for pasture by building a simple embankment around it . |
| 18 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 19 | Canaletto has shot up to £8–10 million , which seems high even considering the undisputed quality of the painting , while the Rembrandt has plunged to £5 million . |
| 20 | Within 40 years , that figure has shot up to almost 80 million tonnes . |
| 21 | The number of TV sets adapted for Prestel has crept up to 24 000 , and only 4000 of those do not belong to businesses . |
| 22 | However , looking back , and especially looking back after all the interlacements of Volumes Two and Three , one might well think that besides an image of life ‘ the Road ’ has crept up to being an image of Providence . |
| 23 | Board member Jim Harris , who took over immediately from Michels as president and CEO , has moved up to chairman , replaced by SCO 's European chief Lars Turndal . |
| 24 | Harris Corp 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Computer Systems Division has moved up to the second generation 88110 version of Motorola Inc 's RISC family with the Night Hawk 5000 series — which ca n't be called Night Hawk in the UK . |
| 25 | By Stage three , marketing has moved up to a position of equality with sales . |
| 26 | Her daughter Anna is now ten and has moved up to her next school . |
| 27 | Unemployment caused problems for some and the plummeting value of property , particularly in the South , has robbed up to two million owners of their savings . |
| 28 | However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government . |
| 29 | During this year , the legal department has had up to three hundred active cases in hand at any one time , and this shows no sign of slowing down . |
| 30 | But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner . |