Example sentences of "up to his " in BNC.
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| 31 | He hardly lived up to his Dullesian billing as an emissary of Satan . |
| 32 | As he craned his neck and looked up to his right , Mungo 's heart beat faster . |
| 33 | Arranging to have a game of darts with Jos later in the evening , Mungo went up to his room . |
| 34 | Frankie felt his face redden and his cheeks begin to burn all the way up to his scalp . |
| 35 | His hand would come up to his head and he would wipe back his hair in a little , unconscious gesture of annoyance . |
| 36 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 37 | One horse may say , ‘ I like you ’ , by mouthing his owner 's hand with his lips and tongue ; another may put his head on his owner 's shoulder ; or a third may come up to his owner and make some other form of body contact . |
| 38 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 39 | ‘ Used to call us up to his desk . |
| 40 | But when I entered the backstage dressing-room in Carnegie Hall , Daniel Barenboim did n't live up to his ‘ Proceed With Caution ’ reputation . |
| 41 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 42 | Sir Formal Trifle is a melancholy , po-faced rhetorician who will never use one short word if he can get his tongue round 50 long ones , while Sir Samuel Hearty hilariously lives up to his name . |
| 43 | International : The Comeback Kid lives up to his name again |
| 44 | Whether he lives up to his promise as a future Tory leader may depend on his success in one of the hair shirt Government posts . |
| 45 | A 46-year-old married man was shot dead early today as he drove up to his home in Grahamsbridge Road , Dundonald , on the edge of Protestant east Belfast . |
| 46 | ’ Agnes snuggled up to his manly breast-pocket . |
| 47 | ‘ The plan was for Bryce to drive up and get them , but he 's up to his eyes in trying to draw substantial amounts of water from our well . |
| 48 | He would ply a wealthy traveller with drink until he was besozzled , and then lead the unfortunate traveller up to his best room . |
| 49 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 50 | This was immediately prior to the Nicholson ‘ star ’ era ; the wave of which he rode the crest was beginning to build and it is interesting to chronicle for a moment some of the events leading up to his ‘ discovery ’ as a major Hollywood personality — a hero of the age and one who , as we have seen , was much influenced by the existentialist prophecies of Kerouac , which were now , finally , coming home to roost in middle-class America and elsewhere . |
| 51 | He 's just a randy little shit , up to his old tricks , putting it about all over town , Victoria Hamilton 's the one , mark my words . |
| 52 | Ranald shrugged his shoulders up to his ears , and rolled his eyes at Luch . |
| 53 | Lachlan walked slowly up to his room and stared down at his wife lying smiling at him ; and at the red , crumpled face and red , crumpled hair of his son , yelling just like his father in a temper ; and back to Marion again . |
| 54 | Choosing the former , I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants ' wing early one morning and knocked gently . |
| 55 | Further assistance was called , a bath-chair arrived in due course , and my father was transported up to his room . |
| 56 | Finally , she held the camera right up to his face . |
| 57 | He went up to his room while Marler went to his , dumped his bag on the bed , ran back to the elevator and walked out of the hotel . |
| 58 | He had had a successful academic career at Cambridge University , where he had taken successive degrees leading up to his PhD . |
| 59 | And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’ |
| 60 | He strode off the course , goes up to his room and says to Winnie ( Mrs palmer ) , ‘ Do n't unpack , honey ; we 're going home . ’ |