Example sentences of "we [vb base] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 2 | We receive up to a hundred and forty week |
| 3 | ‘ We give up to a 70% discount on some related products like paper , ’ Ms Knowles said . |
| 4 | Early experiences shape the way we face up to and deal with problems and crises ; the way we cope with disappointments ; the way we form relationships ; the way we construct personal aims and objectives ; the way we develop strategies for fulfilling needs and desires ; and the way we build a system of social and moral values and attitudes . |
| 5 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 6 | Unless we face up to that fact , moreover , any discussion of how we can safeguard certain democratic arrangements that we regarded as part of the British ‘ constitution ’ in the past ( e.g. the independence of local government ) or entrench others ( e.g. a Bill of Rights ) against an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ will run into the sand . |
| 7 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 8 | She 's a size 18 and we cater up to large only . |
| 9 | These are just some of the things we get up to . |
| 10 | Usually the Law ignores what we get up to down in Deptford , but firing off shotguns is something they have a duty to respond to . |
| 11 | We get up to all sorts , I can tell you , and ferried not fully in our stride yet . |
| 12 | Erm , soul , as you 'll recollect , stands in this funny relation erm between body and and when we get up to intellect we 're actually transcending the soul as well . |
| 13 | Mr Kennett-Orpwood said : ‘ When we have our family services we get up to 100 people coming and at the moment we have to hire the community centre once a month for our family services . |
| 14 | Sometimes we are joined by mums who we encourage to stay and see what we get up to , and some of the fathers have helped out as well . |
| 15 | and they 're all pretty valid , and I can assure you that , if we allow up to a maximum of five hundred and we check out what they 're doing with it , and we put all the right s it 's not going to be money wasted . |
| 16 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 17 | We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life . |
| 18 | ( Wait till later , when we go up to Uncle Knacker 's , Hoomey thought . ) |
| 19 | ‘ How about we go up to your room . |
| 20 | It 's accessible — not just in price , but also in size as we go up to 18 , and the clothes are available all over the country . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Better change into your slippers before we go up to your bedroom . ’ |
| 22 | Now what 's going to happen along the right hand axis we go up to twenty and so we can go along there in twos and it 'll just fit on . |
| 23 | We go up to the wheel base and Yeb is instantly recognised . |
| 24 | Cicely put on a cheerful expression and tactfully , as though thinking to leave the newly engaged couple to say goodnight in private , she smiled , ‘ If you 'll excuse us , Leith , Guthrie and I always go and check on the horses before we go up to bed . |
| 25 | and then on a Thursday night you go up , we go up to a place called Pia |
| 26 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 27 | Yes , we can look forward to that application , for under the provisions agreed in the treaty , if we and our European partners fail to implement directives that we sign up to , we shall be subjected to substantial fines by the European Court of Justice . |
| 28 | As Goffman puts it ( 1981 : 128 ) , " A change in footing implies a change in the alignment we take up to ourselves and the others present as expressed in the way we manage the production or reception of an utterance . |
| 29 | But up there , we take up to 8 G-forces , which increase your body weight by 8 times . |
| 30 | ‘ So far we operate 30 , but by the end of the year we estimate up to 100 franchises could be in place . ’ |