Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |