Example sentences of "[vb pp] up to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 2 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 3 | It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles . |
| 4 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 5 | The spectacular aerial shots , Prof Burland 's lightly worn erudition , the delicious dollops of Verdi and Rossini and the ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek commentary added up to a ‘ Carry on Leaning ’ that I felt obliged to watch all over again . |
| 6 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 7 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 8 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
| 9 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 10 | It all added up to a hotel bedroom . |
| 11 | Lifted up to a new level and a new nearness to our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 12 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 13 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 14 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 15 | A videodisc player can be connected up to a monitor or television set in the same way as a videocassette player . |
| 16 | But note that you must use fittings and valves which comply with the water byelaws and that if the cold supply is connected up to a washing machine from the rising main , this will be at mains pressure while the hot supply ( if there is one ) will be at a lower pressure . |
| 17 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 18 | All pipe materials can be painted : copper can be polished up to a fine shine if you like the ship 's engine room effect . |
| 19 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 20 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 21 | The staff was gradually built up to a strength of 460 and , by the end of September 1943 60 planes had been repaired . |
| 22 | It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head . |
| 23 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 24 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 25 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 26 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 27 | The slipstream built up to a scream , and despair drugged his actions . |
| 28 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 29 | By Stage three , marketing has moved up to a position of equality with sales . |
| 30 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |