Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up [pron] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 2 | If I was a fish then I needed water and I had given up my right to it . |
| 3 | Once you 've made up your mind to something I think you usually do it . |
| 4 | They were to be friends , not lovers , she had made up her mind to that . |
| 5 | He had made up his mind to be morally irresponsible this evening . |
| 6 | The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey . |
| 7 | . ’ Gibbon had followed up his opposition to the girl by ‘ acts of personal hostility to me ’ . |
| 8 | Commenting on Lord Castlehaven 's case , he stated : ‘ Tho in marriage she hath given up her body to her husband , she is not to be by him prostituted to another . ’ |
| 9 | But the ethos of professionalism with which police authorities are imbued has led to a recognition that social research can bring valuable results , so they have opened up their leviathan to strangers and specially commissioned specific pieces of research . |