Example sentences of "[pron] up to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 2 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 3 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 4 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 5 | Instead of reassuring Stephen , now working himself up to a fever pitch of nervous excitement with the launch date in view , Michael 's superior manner had begun to grate . |
| 6 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 7 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll beam you up to a point in space close to the centre of a galaxy . |
| 9 | Now , if you lie back on the cushions , I 'll just hook you up to an enhancement device so we can share the experience . ’ |
| 10 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 11 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 12 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 13 | She 's sent them up to a London publisher who is actually going to bring them out — Multiculturalism and Pluralism in the New Europe . |
| 14 | The Dutch parliament has recently decided that owners of contaminated sites should aim to clean them up to a level that is suitable for any use , but has accepted that where such a policy is uneconomic , it would be sufficient to isolate , control and monitor the land . |
| 15 | She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job . |
| 16 | He guaranteed his windows against everything up to a BlastMaster minimissile , but you were usually too dead to complain if he supplied you with defective merch . |
| 17 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 18 | But , but i i i i if you went yes I mean er in a sense that th there are one possibility is to redistribute the land , and do that equally , but if , if there , there was not enough land to bring everybody up to subsistence level er I mean some were , the , the argument is there was n't enough land to bring everybody up to a landlord 's subsistence level . |
| 19 | I used to fantasise about tying her up to a bed , together with all her giggling friends , like the woman in the film . ’ |
| 20 | They tied her up to a tension , with many si sniggering jest . |
| 21 | Backing her up to a bench , he pressed her down on to it and left her . |
| 22 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 23 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 24 | His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point . |
| 25 | Perhaps , he thought , they hoped to link it up to a Euphrates Valley railway , which would make Baghdad a Russian southern capital . |
| 26 | If you use a dinghy or a small boat , chain it up to a ring when you land and then padlock the chain . |
| 27 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 28 | I pull myself up to a sitting position . |
| 29 | Themes very closely related to the idea of ‘ locality ’ have been employed to bring us up to an account of region . |
| 30 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |