Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 2 | The Royal Mail 's come up with the answer to a sticky problem . |
| 3 | Mr Hollings confirmed that Dowding was holding on to its 8.7pc stake in T&C , built up in the run-up to and during the launch of the takeover bid . |
| 4 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 5 | At this point , an isolated plantation will be noticed up on the hillside to the left , and if it can be reached without damaging walls it should be . |
| 6 | Newman climbed out of the car , locked it , strolled up to the entrance to the house . |
| 7 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 8 | Faxfinders — the first Barlaston admin. circle to make a presentation — came up with the solution to the complex problem after months of hard work . |
| 9 | They are like patients , who , suspecting that something is seriously wrong , steadfastly refuse to see a doctor in the hope that their troubles will clear up without the need to be told the truth about themselves or undergo painful treatment . |
| 10 | Lay blind out flat with lining uppermost , and mark the position of the lath channel by measuring up from the hemline to a distance equal to the depth of the bottom pelmet . |
| 11 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 12 | It is modern technology all wrapped up without the cable to trip over , and the restriction of power point locations . |
| 13 | Joey Dunlop is second in the Roadracing Ireland Open Championship and would appear to have it wrapped up following the injury to the championship leader , Derek Young , at Kirkistown last Saturday . |
| 14 | I soon had an armful , then clambered up off the shingle to the better walking of the salt-washed turf where the burn , dividing into deep peaty runnels , cut its way to the shore . |
| 15 | This would consist of a meeting of staff , preferably with a chairman not directly involved with the work of the team , in which staff members would be encouraged to contribute information concerning the patient and his circumstances which would enable a full picture of the events leading up to the suicide to be established . |
| 16 | He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry . |
| 17 | From Dundonnell a cart track leads up from the road to the plateau of An Teallach and can be followed until the twin peaks of Beinn Dearg come into sight . |
| 18 | The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill . |
| 19 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 20 | Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen . |
| 21 | It was midway through her third croissant that Lisa caught sight of little Emily , striding , hand in hand with Vass , along the path that led up from the shore to the house . |
| 22 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 23 | But following your argument that would indicate that the image we have now is a concocted one made up by the press to a large extent . |
| 24 | . The letters of all good soldiers show that the military duties of the soldier and his good military bearing are indivisibly bound up with the loyalty to the Führer and thus with a genuine National Socialist attitude in general … |
| 25 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 26 | He cut up through the forest to where he 'd left the shotguns and followed the treeline round to the left until he hit a shallow ravine almost opposite the cabin . |
| 27 | The Trust 's chief executive , Martin Dyer , is also moving up from the south to Askrigg Darrowby in TV 's All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 28 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 29 | At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed . |
| 30 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |