Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] up to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 5 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 6 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 7 | I pull myself up to a sitting position . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |