Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 2 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 3 | This had built up the present balance to what it now was . |
| 4 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 5 | The Rome Treaty aims to open up the Common Market to competition in respect of services as well as goods . |
| 6 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 7 | We climbed up the easy slope to the top of the island , and found we were overlooking a sort of wooded cliff on the other side . |
| 8 | This Fifties comedy was set in a ‘ flea pit ’ cinema called the Bijou where staff turned up the central heating to boiling point in a desert picture to boost ice cream sales . |
| 9 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 10 | This space thus contains all the elements of the assembly and can be reflected up the hierarchical structure to a level at which assemblies are being considered . |
| 11 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 13 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 14 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 15 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |
| 16 | After installing the necessary electrical circuit , connect up the heat-resistant flex to the terminals on the heater |
| 17 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 18 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
| 19 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 20 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 21 | Jasper Sharpe powered up the direct start to Moving Staircase at High Rocks to give a fun ( and 6b ) boulder problem . |
| 22 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 23 | Everett True , writing in Melody Maker , probably summed up the general reaction to the shows when he wrote : ‘ It 's rock . |
| 24 | Neither did he hear Zach repeatedly calling him from outside or the sound of his footsteps running up the tiny pathway to the back door . |
| 25 | Without pausing , she hurried on and although I called after her she did n't stop until she had reached the other side and scrambled up the rocky gully to the top . |
| 26 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 27 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 28 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 29 | The last Labour Government put up the standard rate to 35p . |
| 30 | Roll the die , answer a question and move up the greasy pole to Downing Street . |