Example sentences of "up to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reynolds was a notable conversationalist , well able to stand up to his friends , who included Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke . |
| 2 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 3 | I wanted to give him supper but he said he would take sandwiches up to his room and get on with his work . |
| 4 | Asked to have breakfast brought up to his room at six . |
| 5 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 6 | J. Smart of Powys lived up to his name , and was the only entrant to get it right . |
| 7 | North reversed with Two Diamonds and now it was up to his partner to make a descriptive bid . |
| 8 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 9 | If blasphemy was ‘ a way of affirming belief , then it is possible to see how Eliot 's most blasphemously despairing poem , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , led up to his conversion . |
| 10 | She said , come in , but Nick 's not awake yet , go up to his room . |
| 11 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 12 | Not quite up to his class I thought . ’ |
| 13 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
| 14 | My eyes stayed on his wrists , and moved up to his starched cuffs , somehow more noticeable than all that gold , or gold paint in the case of the watch . |
| 15 | It was a startling promise , stimulated perhaps by the fact that he did not have to reveal his name and live up to his words . |
| 16 | He is putting on his protection , a long mitt made of sacking up to his elbow . |
| 17 | He proclaimed triumphantly , pulling himself up to his full five foot six inches , his face aglow . |
| 18 | He did n't want Mrs Wright driving right up to his house . |
| 19 | He was beginning to wish he had n't brought Lee up to his room . |
| 20 | It bored Philip , so he usually stayed in the kitchen or went up to his room . |
| 21 | Philip went up to his room . |
| 22 | Then feeling for the window-sill that was part way up , he knocked the owl lamp that his Mum had put there for him to take up to his room . |
| 23 | When there was nothing but ash he could crumble with a stick he went back up to his room . |
| 24 | The Junior Minister pulled himself up to his full height of five foot three , and in a plummy voice rich with haughty disdain said , ‘ What difference does that make ? ’ |
| 25 | At nine the headmaster , who had introduced him , escorted him back to his hotel and up to his room . |
| 26 | A bird-watcher had climbed down there once , to get his binoculars , and the mud had sucked him in up to his waist . |
| 27 | Immediately the mud sucked him in up to his ankles . |
| 28 | The ooze swallowed him up to his knees . |
| 29 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |
| 30 | He 'll put one foot down , it stays on the surface for a second , he transfers his weight and sinks up to his body . |