Example sentences of "[vb past] up to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 , the largest holiday operator , Thomsons , charged up to £145 for a week 's high season full board in Majorca — the most popular foreign holiday destination now and then . |
| 2 | In 1834 it was described as red like the Devon with a golden nose , long silky hair , prominent eyes , wide forehead , fairly wide muzzle , small dewlap , rather thin forelegs of moderate length and a barrel-shaped body ; the average oxen of the time weighed up to 545kg with some up to 725kg . |
| 3 | ‘ A ’ moved up to second in division one after beating bottom team Farnborough Tech ‘ C ’ . |
| 4 | — Co-operative Wholesale Society sales last year moved up to £3.2bn against £3bn last year . |
| 5 | A recent study by Bradford De Long of Harvard University concluded that the presence of a Morgan partner on a company 's board added up to 30% to a share 's value . |
| 6 | Some indication of the new , mature Baggio came last weekend when , on his own initiative , he drove up to Genna from Florence to visit Ivan Dell ‘ Oglio , a young Bologna fan hospitalised with serious burns after a bomb attack on a train before last June 's Fiorentina v Bologna game . |
| 7 | After a year abroad , Laura and Bernard drove up to Rhydoldog in snow to find that Ruby and Molly , as a welcoming gesture , had put out the French flag on the lawn . |
| 8 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 9 | The child was an expense , of course , but she seemed up to date with her garments , her school trips . |
| 10 | So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 . |
| 11 | I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ . |
| 12 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 13 | … before they were all sold , a quantity of the same sort came up to town at half the price , so that the rest remained on hand . |
| 14 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 15 | Nick Logan was n't one of these ; he was a ‘ ticket ’ , a mod who came up to town by train , from Walthamstow in his case , which was where he grew up , left school at 15 and joined the local paper . |
| 16 | Another man in a white coat came up to Hamish from the far end of the corridor . |
| 17 | On Remembrance Sunday last year strangers came up to Irene in the street and asked to shake her hand . |
| 18 | The inquest was adjourned and Stringer came up to Stephen outside the court . |
| 19 | FORD slashed up to £1,000 off the price of new cars and vans yesterday . |
| 20 | Rebecca cuddled up to Mum after lunch . |
| 21 | The buyers , who paid up to £120,000 for their luxury homes before the property slump , have launched a High Court action against Lovell Homes . |
| 22 | They all linked up to computers in the UK and abroad . ’ |
| 23 | Heavy pigs sold up to £70.80 for 16 pigs from A Monaghan . |
| 24 | Having served as sort of er apprentice there as an artillery clerk , I was put , posted up to Woolwich to go through a erm clerk 's course . |
| 25 | As children , we all got up to tricks like pinching a few apples or knocking on someone 's door and running away — all rather harmless , but if our parents found out , we would be in for a good hiding , a cut on the backside . |
| 26 | Ref Kenneth Leach sent the keeper off and Kearney stepped up to rifle in the penalty for Crewe 's fourth goal . |
| 27 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 28 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
| 29 | Keith was told that if he went up to bed at 9pm his father would read him a story while he had a quarter cup of cold drinking chocolate . |
| 30 | Which means that from Slains they took some old route perhaps across the Moss of Cruden , then crossed where the A92 runs now , and from the modern A950 , or a comparable road , went up to Strichen through the Forest of Deer : today 's byroads may have been old lanes or drovers ' trails . |