Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] up to [art] " in BNC.

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1 And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance .
2 On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him .
3 The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] .
4 Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " .
5 Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him .
6 The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains .
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