Example sentences of "up to the [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 2 | So if the lady was on fire , you 'd leave it basically to the Fire Brigade , obviously if you could help the lady , get a ladder up to the window to get her out of the room or something like that , you would do that , you would help in any way you can , but the real experts are the Fire Brigade so we leave all the er real technical stuff to the Fire Brigade . |
| 3 | They asked Mrs thomas to let them in , but she held a note up to the window asking them to fetch her daughter , Mr Bellamy 's mother , who lives around the corner . |
| 4 | Fetch the lead there go up to the kitchen do you think ? |
| 5 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 6 | I said well it 's up to the teachers , I said , you ca n't expect me , I mean if there was if he was picked on I would go down there but I mean if he 's being naughty then it 's up to the teachers to sort him out |
| 7 | She looked up to the ceiling to find him , she looked in spaces too small to hold a bird . |
| 8 | It 's up to the RFU to make it worth their while . |
| 9 | Somewhere down there he stubbed himself against an ill-defined but hard mass of fact , and brought it up to the surface to examine it . |
| 10 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 11 | It is then up to the employer to prove you were fired fairly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 14 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 15 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 16 | Pitching it up to the batsman made it , quite often , unplayable . |
| 17 | Then , to quote my sister again , ‘ I took my little black kitten in my arms up to the poet to introduce it , and tall Mr Eliot bending forward to look at it remarked ‘ That 's a nice little catlet ’ ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 19 | I want you to get someone to drive you up to the hospital to see her . |
| 20 | It is up to the agency to persuade him to change his mind . |