Example sentences of "[verb] up [pos pn] [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 | I 'm not opening up our file to you , Bill . |
| 3 | His tongue and lips and breathing rose up her body to her breasts , her neck , her shoulders , her ears , her stifling hair . |
| 4 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 5 | Breastfeeding speeds up its return to normal size after birth . |
| 6 | By mid-forenoon they could see Dunbar 's towers ahead ; and by noontide they were under the outer castle-bridge , with Ramsay shouting up his name to the watch and asking for the Countess Agnes . |
| 7 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
| 8 | Congress , I joined the Labour Party and I became a Socialist , I remain a member of the Labour Party , I remain a Socialist , I 'm a trade unionist , I wo n't give up my Labour Party membership and I wo n't give up my involvement to my trade union and my linkage between the trade union movement and the Labour Party without a fight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 11 | They were to be friends , not lovers , she had made up her mind to that . |
| 12 | He had made up his mind to be morally irresponsible this evening . |
| 13 | The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey . |
| 14 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 15 | Once you 've made up your mind to something I think you usually do it . |
| 16 | Straining , successfully , to eradicate any trace of intelligence , Glaser pulls out every stop to rack up his movie to cloying extremes . |
| 17 | Open up your mind to the possibility that every suggestion someone makes to you is an opportunity for achieving even more profitable results . |
| 18 | Open up yu self to any possibility |
| 19 | Westminster were presented with champagne and a trophy , Grant Parrott discovered muscles he never knew existed , Geoff Whalley paid up his bet to James Burford . |
| 20 | It must also follow up its commitment to the Climate Change Convention signed and championed by Prime Minister John Major at the Rio Earth Summit in June . |
| 21 | yeah , no , no nobody knows how , how they , how they do things , they 've never opened up their army to us but |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | So , when the house is full , and my husband 's away , and I give up my room to some guest like your Rainbow 's Aunt Goldie — I spend the night in my father 's study , and reading all the texts that were n't written for the eyes of women . |
| 25 | I may give away everything I have , and even give up my body to be burned — but if I have no love this does me no good . |
| 26 | I will therefore , sir , dear as you are to me , give up your person to the happier , to my worthier rival . |
| 27 | He needs an extra £100 000 to scale up his method to 10 litres — big enough for clinical trials . |
| 28 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 29 | Stepping up its commitment to the Unix market , this announcement follows a stream of similar agreements including ports to Novell Inc 's NetWare and Univel Inc for UnixWare . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |