Example sentences of "up to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |
| 2 | The divider will tell you the date up to which amendments have been included in the statute . |
| 3 | The clean up to which Mr Bagnall referred has been physical ( refurbishment , rebadging and refitting ) , operational , and strategic . |
| 4 | Up to 'er shoulders by then , shrieking like a banshee . |
| 5 | Up to 'er shoulders , she were . |
| 6 | It 's up to thee months , I say after three months no good taking anything at all because you 'd never lose it , not after three months . |
| 7 | A Bolton engineer sent his daughter each week ‘ up to me grandmother 's , take her a shilling . ’ |
| 8 | They said it was up to me father to try to alter her . ’ |
| 9 | He had stepped right up to her desk . |
| 10 | ‘ That Olivera office opposite , ’ said Greg , coming up to her desk , sitting himself on the edge of it , and kissing her twice — ‘ what sort of place is it ? ’ |
| 11 | He walked up to her desk and stood looking down at her . |
| 12 | In Rhodes he had seen a lot of her , right up to her thigh , and Nicholas was right : he was pea-green with envy . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ she pushed the sleeves of the pullover up to her elbows . |
| 14 | When the table was ready she filled a deep pan with water and put it on the cooker , her movements slow and simpering in contrast to those of her mother , who quickly poured olive oil into a big black frying-pan , threw in the artichokes , covered them and rinsed her hands and arms before drawing a chair up to one of the cauldrons and sliding into the curd up to her elbows . |
| 15 | Francie , still smoking at the table , laughed like a coffee grinder whirring , and Aunt Margaret , up to her elbows in suds , turned warningly to him with a finger on her lips . |
| 16 | All of which became hidden as she shrugged on an oversized khaki shirt , the sleeves hitched up to her elbows . |
| 17 | Moynihan had been in his time a University cox and a flyweight boxing blue , and barely came up to her elbow . |
| 18 | A third was made with such force it went through her stomach and up to her heart . |
| 19 | ‘ Three degrees over , ’ she said , as if quoting , languid of voice as she stared across the hearthrug at him , one hand up to her bosom , as if protectively . |
| 20 | A coil of heat seemed to rise from her thighs to her stomach , spreading up to her breasts . |
| 21 | God , he was so gorgeous … her hands were moving on to his strong thoat , thrusting into his black hair , she was losing her head again as the kiss deepened and she heard him give a low growl of harsh excitement , his mouth increasing the pressure until Rachel was obliterated by him , dazed , clutching him with shaking hands , gasping hoarsely against his mouth , feeling his strong hands move swiftly up to her breasts to stroke her nipples and force a long hoarse cry of exquisite desire from her . |
| 22 | Suddenly , she was clinging to him , her hands in his dark hair , gasping with pent-up desire as his hands swept up to her breasts . |
| 23 | Living up to her reputation , Peters found that she had done her homework thoroughly . |
| 24 | She lived up to her reputation and cruised to victory in the woman 's event . |
| 25 | She 'd come out here to Malta at the man 's request , knowing his connection with her mother 's new craze for danger , to do a job , to try to live up to her reputation as a lively , capable , sophisticated fixer of publicity . |
| 26 | At that moment he heard Mrs Beavis call up to her girls . |
| 27 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 28 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |
| 29 | In the darkening afternoon , the taxi pulled up to her hotel . |
| 30 | She had sunk up to her ankles in the translucent bubble . |