Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] up to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His party has now signed up to Mr. MacSharry and his basic philosophy . |
| 2 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 3 | On hearing of the don 's disappearance , she 'd naturally rushed up to Oxford in the hope of tracking down her precious notes . |
| 4 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 5 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 6 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 7 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 8 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 9 | The price per set had however gone up to £6 . |
| 10 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 11 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 12 | But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world . |