Example sentences of "[pron] open up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 2 | They 're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking , which open up a whole new world for them . |
| 3 | It was a point which opened up a line of argument opposing the ‘ true ’ national interest of abolition to the false claims of the traders of national necessity for what they were doing . |
| 4 | Physics , I was often told , was a ‘ general degree ’ , one which opened up a range of possibilities ; it was also , many students said , ‘ one of the best degrees you can get ’ . |
| 5 | Click on Define , which opens up a fuller version of the Style box , and then click on Merge . |
| 6 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |
| 7 | There seemed to be a sense of ease in their company that had n't existed the night before , and she opened up a little on her background . |
| 8 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |
| 9 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 10 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 11 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 12 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 13 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 14 | They opened up a market of huge potential for English manufacturers in the New World . |
| 15 | They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left . |
| 16 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 17 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 18 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 19 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 20 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 21 | By arguing that the dimensions ( mass , length and time ) in which the various forms of energy can be expressed must be the same , he opened up a whole new research programme . |
| 22 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 23 | The hesitant middle-aged gentleman who was brave enough to join a keep fit class later found himself confident enough to join the neighbouring management training and business start-up class , and grew in confidence and ability to the extent that he opened up a new business . |
| 24 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 25 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 26 | Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting . |
| 27 | ‘ It opens up a wealth of exciting new opportunities . |
| 28 | It lies below and beyond the distinctions between subject and object which are inbuilt in ordinary experience at the level of knowledge and action ; so it opens up a direct awareness of the God on whom our existence hangs as given in and with our deepest awareness of ourselves . |
| 29 | It opens up a lot of interesting possibilities for the crack , most of which involve adopting a fake French accent . |
| 30 | Such a widening of perspectives obviously leaves no place for the by now out-dated claim concerning the objective nature of linguistic analysis , but it opens up a whole range of stimulating opportunities for the exploration of the ways texts function in society . |