Example sentences of "[verb] up their [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder the Omanis are cautious about opening up their country to foreigners , including tourists . |
| 2 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
| 3 | yeah , no , no nobody knows how , how they , how they do things , they 've never opened up their army to us but |
| 4 | But the ethos of professionalism with which police authorities are imbued has led to a recognition that social research can bring valuable results , so they have opened up their leviathan to strangers and specially commissioned specific pieces of research . |
| 5 | Men need , in effect , to say to each other , ‘ I authorize and give up my right of governing myself , to this man , or to this assembly of men , on this condition , that they give up their right to him and authorize all his actions in like manner . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would hope that between now and polling day those people would make up their mind to actually vote , not out of habit , but for us . |
| 7 | ‘ I would hope that between now and polling day those people would make up their mind to actually vote , not out of habit , but for us . |
| 8 | Yet a third kind are colonies of polyps but ones that have , confusingly , given up their attachment to the sea bottom and sail free like medusae . |
| 9 | For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant . |
| 10 | ANYBODY who pursues competitive sport to Olympic level before building up their business to £90 million turnover might be said to have earned success through hard graft . |
| 11 | Over the next decade , several factors could complicate the metals scene still further , making it even more difficult for governments to weigh up their approach to issues such as stockpiling . |
| 12 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 13 | Dramatic play is an important stage which people need to go through to build up their commitment to the work , but do n't expect learning to take place without teacher intervention . |
| 14 | In the meantime , the Hercules of RAF Lyneham have already stepped up their workload to the war zone . |
| 15 | The Tunisian League of Human Rights ( LTDH ) , which had been founded in 1977 , ceased operation in mid-June , having failed to comply with a new law which required that all such associations should open up their membership to members of all political parties and which also banned office-holders in political parties from belonging to such private associations . |
| 16 | John Warnock and Chuck Geschke of Adobe both worked for Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Centre where PDLs were invented and set up their company to commercially exploit the concepts they had helped develop . |