Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 2 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 3 | Although it was small and seemed damp , we were told work would soon be done to bring it up to an acceptable level . ’ |
| 4 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 5 | They were all built round and round and up until they came to what they called the the e the part of the stack where they begin to make it up to the top , you see ? |
| 6 | Themes very closely related to the idea of ‘ locality ’ have been employed to bring us up to an account of region . |
| 7 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 10 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 11 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
| 12 | He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed . |
| 13 | This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang . |
| 14 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 15 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 16 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
| 17 | Perhaps , he thought , they hoped to link it up to a Euphrates Valley railway , which would make Baghdad a Russian southern capital . |
| 18 | Make no mistake about it by all the processes of the government propaganda machine by kite-flying and carefully placed links , the government is trying to soften us up to the idea of increasing the State pension age for women to sixty five . |
| 19 | erm it 's concerning the photograph , and she just wondered if you had anything in mind for the photograph or if , if you wanted to leave it up to the press ? |
| 20 | She 's sent them up to a London publisher who is actually going to bring them out — Multiculturalism and Pluralism in the New Europe . |
| 21 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |