Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 2 | What 's actually happened is , first of all Tracey 's leaving , she 's been promoted to Area Telesales Manager for Talking Pages so she 's going up to Slough and Michelle will be going for that position , and one other girl and the two others that are on management development , one is now leaving cos she 's like , burnt out , she does n't want to do it any more and the other one 's going into the field so it 's literally just me and this other girl and Michelle , but I 'm obviously just starting , but next time around it 'll just be me again Di , and Dianna is good at her work |
| 3 | Again , some feedback on the flip chart erm let's give you fifteen minutes for that so it 's coming up to five past twenty past |
| 4 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 5 | Now it is coming up to winter I have a lot of black and white outfits . |
| 6 | Now he 's facing up to his first week without work in 36 years |
| 7 | Now he 's playing up to that image in True Romance , a Bonny and Clyde type movie involving drugs , car chases and a beautiful woman . |
| 8 | She said , but , well you were going up to , around that |
| 9 | Here she is measuring up to Robert Wadlow , the tallest man the world has ever known . |
| 10 | Well we 're going up to unit again . |
| 11 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 12 | ‘ Why have n't we been affected up to now ? ’ |
| 13 | Well it 's speeding up to there accelerating and it 's |
| 14 | Michael 's still a little bit small , well he 's coming up to four now in May , so , but er |
| 15 | Well mine 's going up to twenty eight |
| 16 | And then you 're flying up to Stone Haven |
| 17 | I 've been there , do n't forget , and I 've seen how you are looked up to . |
| 18 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 19 | We see how he 's shaping up to the ‘ new age ’ ahead , and offer some thoughts of our own . |
| 20 | But it 's when you 're built up to nine pints it makes you |
| 21 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 22 | Firemen hauled the middle aged man out from the tank where he was trapped up to his neck . |