Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up to a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love .
2 Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny .
3 ‘ I 'll beam you up to a point in space close to the centre of a galaxy .
4 Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine .
5 And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance .
6 The Dutch parliament has recently decided that owners of contaminated sites should aim to clean them up to a level that is suitable for any use , but has accepted that where such a policy is uneconomic , it would be sufficient to isolate , control and monitor the land .
7 Now , if you lie back on the cushions , I 'll just hook you up to an enhancement device so we can share the experience . ’
8 If you use a dinghy or a small boat , chain it up to a ring when you land and then padlock the chain .
9 He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter .
10 His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point .
11 I used to fantasise about tying her up to a bed , together with all her giggling friends , like the woman in the film . ’
12 They tied her up to a tension , with many si sniggering jest .
13 So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ?
14 While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy .
15 She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job .
16 Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building .
17 Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream .
18 As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism .
19 But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’
20 But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’
21 I pull myself up to a sitting position .
22 The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise .
23 Instead of reassuring Stephen , now working himself up to a fever pitch of nervous excitement with the launch date in view , Michael 's superior manner had begun to grate .
24 But , but i i i i if you went yes I mean er in a sense that th there are one possibility is to redistribute the land , and do that equally , but if , if there , there was not enough land to bring everybody up to subsistence level er I mean some were , the , the argument is there was n't enough land to bring everybody up to a landlord 's subsistence level .
25 Backing her up to a bench , he pressed her down on to it and left her .
26 Themes very closely related to the idea of ‘ locality ’ have been employed to bring us up to an account of region .
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