Example sentences of "[verb] up a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven of them , including the Archbishop and Ken , drew up a petition to this effect ; the bishops presented it in person to the King , who exclaimed in anger , ‘ This is a standard of rebellion . ’ |
| 2 | Mike , who lives nearby , crawled under the floor to rig up a supply to a glass-washing machine . |
| 3 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 4 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 5 | Have you built up a debt to the bank ? |
| 6 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , 36 , a legend in British table tennis over the past decade has moved up a place to No 3 on the new England men 's ranking list , writes John Woodford . |
| 7 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 8 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 9 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 10 | County freeholders and burgh magistrates alike found Indian patronage attractive , for an Indian appointment opened up a career to a poor gentleman as none of the alternatives then available could do . |
| 11 | Alone together they fell to tender embraces that rapidly shifted up a gear to heavy petting , and before long they had retired to the girl 's bedroom for more adventurous fun and games . |
| 12 | It has opened up a market to Apple , to which it previously had no direct access . |
| 13 | As you play through this , do n't forget to re-tune your low E string up a semi-tone to F and to let the notes sustain into each other wherever possible . |
| 14 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
| 15 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
| 16 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 17 | Other skills involved were the planning of time , the allocation of tasks , drawing up a questionnaire to be used to cover local facilities , telephoning and interviewing local licensees and decision-making in relation to the selection , organization and editing of information gathered . |
| 18 | Make up an advertisement to ‘ sell ’ yourself . |
| 19 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 20 | God , it 's simple to understand , a child could do it , but old Mike has to put up a resistance to everything . |
| 21 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 22 | Then , on April 9 , he commended a group , none of whose names was included in the Press release , called who suggested that the industry should set up a body to be more pro-active and dynamic in the promotion of food products . |
| 23 | Observers predict that industry may set up an equivalent to Duales System Deutschland ( DSD — the national waste collecting company established in the wake of the consumer packaging law ) . |
| 24 | I would normally set up an area to the right of the input range but for ease of taking screen dumps I have here gone lower down — do not copy my example in a real database that is going to grow bigger ! |
| 25 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 26 | Laird scissored with his stand-off and then displayed both pace and power to race 50 metres to the Colleges line where , although tackled , he popped up a pass to fellow-centre Willie Weatherhead who scored , Livingstone converting . |
| 27 | Why would he find it in his interest to ratchet up a challenge to a foreign power that has , after all , an impeccable legal position in Panama and a considerable military position ? |
| 28 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 29 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 30 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |