Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 2 | The head keeper shrugged and led them back up a passageway to a cleaner empty cell . |
| 3 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 4 | God , it 's simple to understand , a child could do it , but old Mike has to put up a resistance to everything . |
| 5 | Does his eagerness amount to setting up a trust to that effect ? |
| 6 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 7 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 8 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 9 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 10 | The rudder trim started at two thirds to the right and in level flight , with the power set at 24 ’ , manifold 2200 rpm , ended up a quarter to the left . |
| 11 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 12 | Have you built up a debt to the bank ? |
| 13 | The program moves up a level to the assembly file and checks for possible interference between the selected part and other sub-assemblies contained within the assembly . |
| 14 | He developed many of these dramatic sketches , which embodied tricks and illusions : two of the most famous were ‘ Elixir Vitae ’ , which involved the illusion of decapitation , and ‘ A Spirit Case or Mrs Daffodil Downing 's Light and Dark Seance ’ which conjured up a ghost to the sounds of a violin suspended in the air . |
| 15 | But she added that she understood that AT&T was interested in setting up a competitor to Telecom Eireann . |
| 16 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll put up a statue to you , Mary . ’ |
| 18 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 19 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 20 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 21 | Visitors to the Stoke-on-Trent stand picked up a Passport to the Potteries leaflet which allows them a discount when visiting sites of interest such as the Wedgwood Visitor Centre . |
| 22 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
| 23 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
| 24 | She had ladders and broomsticks and poles for the broomsticks and had to climb up a ladder to the top of the roof to get the cobwebs and everything down . |
| 25 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 26 | County freeholders and burgh magistrates alike found Indian patronage attractive , for an Indian appointment opened up a career to a poor gentleman as none of the alternatives then available could do . |
| 27 | The old stone walls closed about her , so that at times it seemed to be suffocatingly hot , and she found herself putting up a hand to her throat . |
| 28 | Nicandra put up a hand to the loose hairpins in her bun , and looked rather miserable . |
| 29 | Hotspur put up a hand to the furred collar of his cloak , and let it slide from his shoulders ; and like a silent and attentive valet the girl came gliding out of the shadows and took it from him . |
| 30 | Unconsciously she put up a hand to that fatal head of hair , and her fingers , coming into contact with the enveloping white cap , brought her a sobering thought . |