Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
2 | Crossing over to the tree , she began to climb up , drawing herself up from branch to branch wherever she could find foothold or handhold . |
3 | We 'd kept her up till quarter to eight and she was knackered . |
4 | Mary Poovey examines the questions at the heart of the debate : Is the woman in labour outside man 's intervention i.e. if God had cursed Eve with painful childbirth , is it up to man to lift that curse ? |
5 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |