Example sentences of "up to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
| 2 | Our subscription rates are being held until the end of March , so for just £30 you 'll get : • a monthly mailing of regular publications which will brief you on all these issues and more • up to the minute briefings on government announcements • free copies of many of our one-off publications , such as our Short Guide to Poll Tax . |
| 3 | Before leaving Britain we 'd learnt that the hike up to Mount Kenya 's ‘ walkers summit ’ , Point Lenana , was not too demanding , and that the climbing route up to the twin summits of Batian and Nelion was graded mainly Diff , with a few patches of Severe , so we were n't expecting any technical problems . |
| 4 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 5 | Right up to the head waters of time , young men have always been those most inclined to commit crime . |
| 6 | Second in command , Paul Hancock , says they 'll be acting as back up to the Desert Rats at bases in the north-east of Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | Smaller practitioners are fed up to the back teeth with all forms of regulation , and audit regulation in particular . |
| 8 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 9 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 10 | In all these solutions the space-time can only be extended uniquely up to the fold singularities in regions II and III and the surface in region IV on which . |
| 11 | Now the gate piers lean at terrifying angles , overgrown with hawthorns , and cattle graze beneath the oaks and right up to the cellar windows of the south side of the house ; ivy smothers the old garden walls , and Burton on Trent in the valley below creeps nearer and nearer , an enormous and inevitable incoming tide , towards the steep little hill where Brizlincote Hall still stands high and proud . |
| 12 | Poor Martha Lamb was having her fourth baby and was probably hustled up to the attic rooms on the floor above out of earshot ; the child , a boy , was born during the night . |
| 13 | No details yet ( although a possible game against Italy has been mooted ) however , and it seems the national side may not have an engagement before they square up to the World Champions in November — gross score from the last two encounters being Wales 9 Australia 101 . |