Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll fetch up the bath to you straight , and have Adam bring cans of water up here . ’ |
| 2 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 3 | He can work up the ocean to scuds of foam when he 's cross . |
| 4 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 5 | Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size . |
| 6 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 7 | Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently . |
| 8 | ‘ … and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ |
| 9 | The brother shall deliver up the brother to death … |
| 10 | He went to his stall with the words echoing and reechoing in his inward ear : ‘ and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death ’ . |
| 11 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 12 | Then Christ will deliver up the kingdom to the Father , and God will be all in all . |
| 13 | Adding in the cost of the bus fare would jack up the APR to 33.7 per cent — more expensive than the local shop . |
| 14 | Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent . |
| 15 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 16 | They had decided that they should not walk up the staircase to the throne room but find another route to approach their captors . |
| 17 | Beyond the cathedral and the little churches , visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny , medieval village of Scala . |
| 18 | The woman would pull up the sheet to her neck . |
| 19 | A BRIDGE could open up the route to sales success in France for a new product marketed by the protective coatings division of Celomer . |
| 20 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 21 | They had pointed out that a road in this area would open up the rainforest to clearance by settlers , with the consequent loss of habitat for gorillas , elephants and other threatened animal species , and the disruption of the livelihoods of traditional tribal peoples in the area . |
| 22 | Now let your eyes climb up the trunk to the branches , slowly , watching all the time . |