Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 2 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 9 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 10 | 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] . |
| 13 | * 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 . |
| 14 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 15 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 16 | A flight of steps led up the mound to the base of the figure . |
| 17 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 18 | Then she methodically collected her bag , and went off to the Underground , walked up the streets to her mother 's house , and stood outside it looking at the " For Sale " sign . |
| 19 | They walked up the beach to where they had left their towels . |
| 20 | This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage . |
| 21 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 22 | They went up the run to the mouth of the hole and paused together . |
| 23 | We went up the hotel to meals |
| 24 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 25 | She rolled up the sleeve to her elbow , the fingers of her right hand brushing her left forearm as she did so . |
| 26 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 27 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 28 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 29 | In a speech at a national conference on industrial production made on Aug. 2 and released on Oct. 8 , Li Peng warned against " blind " over-rapid growth , and summed up the policies to be continued into the first two years of the forthcoming eighth five-year plan as " rectification and the deepening of reform " , with the emphasis on central control . |
| 30 | Tim ran up the roof to the window . |