Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 2 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 3 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 4 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 5 | Born in 1754 , Murdock was brought up to the trade of his father who was a millwright and miller . |
| 6 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 7 | Evelyn was dressed up to the nines . |