Example sentences of "[pers pn] open up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It could be dangerous so you , you open up the top and then the other parts the lining
2 Say you , you open up the top and then the others parts .
3 Inside the computer if you open up the computer you see these little chips , silicon chips they 're about a centimetre perhaps in length and you 'll see a row of , nine or ten of them , that 's physically what the memory is .
4 As you open up the throttle , you need to move to the front of the boat to help it rise on to the plane .
5 They look mean , sleek and powerful … and when you open up the throttle they do n't half shift .
6 What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date .
7 You will be able to tell whether you have had a tenant when you open up the box next spring , and you may be able to hear the occupant enjoying the garden if you listen out after dark .
8 With a tea cloth around her hand she opened up the oven and took out the mince pies and sausage rolls , placing them on the top of the stove to cool as she put the turkey in to cook .
9 Would you open up the rail gate ? ’
10 How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ?
11 We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village .
12 Next we opened up the loading door .
13 Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in .
14 In the process they open up the soil , often extracting mineral salts from great depths .
15 The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead .
16 So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there .
17 Then , when the show was over and it was time for everyone to wake up and go home , they opened up the roof — the whole thing rolls back to one side .
18 The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it .
19 So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying .
20 I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne 's buses : they opened up the north-west for me .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself .
24 Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services .
25 I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out .
26 Coming so soon after the fiasco of Barricades Week , it opened up the prospect of new opportunities in foreign policy and reinforced a determination on de Gaulle 's part to liquidate the Algerian problem as soon as possible , even at the expense of major concessions to the FLN and its government-in-exile , the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic or GPRA .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Maybe he had a little doubt as he approached the ramp , but he opened up the throttle again and landed on the rear wheel , as planned . ’
30 In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements .
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