Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 2 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 3 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 4 | She rolled up the sleeve to her elbow , the fingers of her right hand brushing her left forearm as she did so . |
| 5 | She pointed up the beach to a man and a woman barely visible under a big beach umbrella . |
| 6 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 7 | We went up the hotel to meals |
| 8 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 9 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 10 | They walked up the beach to where they had left their towels . |
| 11 | They went up the run to the mouth of the hole and paused together . |
| 12 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 13 | He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets . |
| 14 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |
| 15 | Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car . |
| 16 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 17 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 18 | He held up the glass to her . |
| 19 | A few minutes after restarting he picked up the autobahn to Salzburg . |