Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 2 | The entire Met staff climbed up the ladder to the roof to check on the visibility — well , that 's a laugh , we could n't even see the runway , and I do n't suppose the pilots could either . |
| 3 | Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car . |
| 4 | He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets . |
| 5 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |
| 6 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 7 | The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’ |
| 8 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 9 | It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] . |
| 10 | * The Carajas mining project in the Amazon rainforest , which , with its associated rail links , opened up the region to invasion from poor farmers and gold prospectors , resulting in forest destruction on a massive scale and the persecution of local Indian communities . |
| 11 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 12 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 13 | A flight of steps led up the mound to the base of the figure . |
| 14 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 15 | They walked up the beach to where they had left their towels . |
| 16 | This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage . |
| 17 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 18 | They went up the run to the mouth of the hole and paused together . |
| 19 | We went up the hotel to meals |
| 20 | She rolled up the sleeve to her elbow , the fingers of her right hand brushing her left forearm as she did so . |
| 21 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 22 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 23 | Tim ran up the roof to the window . |
| 24 | She indicated Chris with a quick nod of the head , and ran up the garden to the house . |
| 25 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 26 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 27 | A few minutes after restarting he picked up the autobahn to Salzburg . |
| 28 | She pointed up the beach to a man and a woman barely visible under a big beach umbrella . |
| 29 | He held up the glass to her . |
| 30 | But a council report claims BT then jacked up the cost to £3 million and refused to finish the job unless they were paid . |