Example sentences of "[noun] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power . |
| 2 | When nature has provided you with a highly efficient set of incisors capable of cutting down more than 100 trees in one season , and an overriding instinct to build complex dams up to 4,000 ft. long and 12 ft. high , you can regard yourself as one of her senior architects and master builders . |
| 3 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 4 | I 'll go along with some radical improvement to the turbo-ram-jet engine concept ; perhaps a boost in top speed up to Mach 3.5 , even 4 at a stretch of the imagination . |
| 5 | I know there have been a number of accidents in that area but I would hope with all these other traffic calming measures we could have kept that speed up to forty miles an hour . |
| 6 | Hence errors at a variety of levels ( from the interchanging of elements of adjacent words up to the abandoning of whole sentences ) are inevitable . |
| 7 | *****900 WORDS UP TO THIS POINT — THE 300 BELOW CAN BE DISCARDED IF NECESSARY |
| 8 | He could see Everett 's trips up to London , in the days before the electrification of the Wimbledon Railway . |
| 9 | I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling . |
| 10 | Three trips up to London . |
| 11 | In the concert-hall , this performance would earn deserved applause , but I 'm not sure that is stands up to the scrutiny that a recording invites . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether you saw any of the rather naughty stuff I put old Percy Bysshe up to ? ’ |
| 13 | He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked . |
| 14 | With a little bounce she drew the skirt up to her hips . |
| 15 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 16 | Clare took snacks up to her — poached eggs , milky drinks — thinking she was probably exhausted by the change , and needed a couple of days in bed to recover . |
| 17 | Follow the path which runs parallel to the road on its eastern side up to Windgather Rocks . |
| 18 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 19 | At Everton today , Maddison squares up to Barry Horne , who left Saints in a £750,000 deal last summer . |
| 20 | COLIN McMILLAN ( left ) squares up to tonight 's opponent Ruben Palacio , whom Mac must deal with before he worries about Paul Hodkinson |
| 21 | One important difference between eurocheques and ordinary cheques is that each eurocheque is guaranteed by your eurocheque card up to the approximate currency equivalent of £100 . |
| 22 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 23 | For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett . |
| 24 | From then on cylinders were usually made of iron , and much more powerful Newcomen engines were eventually built with cylinders up to 6 ft in diameter . |
| 25 | 2.2 A Stacker-Crane Operated High-Bay Warehouse ( Either Automated or Man-Rider ) in a Conventional Steel Portal Frame Warehouse up to 20 Metres High |
| 26 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |
| 27 | The last of these three exercises begins by raising the legs up to waist height , keeping the back straight and the eyes looking to the front . |
| 28 | I coughed and spluttered and gagged a few times , then fell back into Jamie 's arms , bringing my legs up to my chin to ease the ache in my stomach muscles . |
| 29 | The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly , drawing her legs up to his hips . |
| 30 | Hastily Paige drew her legs up to her chest , anchoring them with her arms . |