Example sentences of "up the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 2 | Little Billy and Don Mini climbed back up the tree to where all the other Minpins were gathered . |
| 3 | Begin by offering up the tree to the hole , some root systems will be rather one-sided and you may need to adjust the hole accordingly . |
| 4 | He can work up the ocean to scuds of foam when he 's cross . |
| 5 | But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down . |
| 6 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 7 | They had decided that they should not walk up the staircase to the throne room but find another route to approach their captors . |
| 8 | This creates charitable understanding and opens up the way to conversion through ‘ a constant appeal to the head and the heart . ’ |
| 9 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 10 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 11 | She pointed up the beach to a man and a woman barely visible under a big beach umbrella . |
| 12 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |
| 13 | They walked up the beach to where they had left their towels . |
| 14 | This time place both your whole forearms horizontally across the back and slide them slowly , yet firmly , apart , one up the back to the top of the shoulders and the other down to the top of the buttocks ; use a fair amount of pressure ( see Fig. 10 ) . |
| 15 | The bag is difficult to get a hold on , but eventually he manages to secure a line to it and troops back up the road to the waiting vehicles . |
| 16 | I dashed straight back up the road to my own house , rang Paul and told him I 'd definitely have one , and maybe two . |
| 17 | There 's a castle , and a cable car that soars up the mountains to an area that has been dubbed ‘ the botanical gardens of Italy ’ . |
| 18 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 19 | Climb straight up the V-groove to ledges ( more fulmars ) than take the short crack above or the ramp on the left to finish . |
| 20 | The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition . |
| 21 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 22 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 23 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 24 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 25 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 26 | But a council report claims BT then jacked up the cost to £3 million and refused to finish the job unless they were paid . |
| 27 | We went up the hotel to meals |
| 28 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 29 | She was worried the water , if unable to flow up the Colne to Colchester , will be forced to find its level in St Osyth . |
| 30 | 5.17.3 to remove all signs erected by the Tenant in upon or near the Premises and immediately to make good any damage caused by such removal It is advisable ( at least for the purpose of this clause ) for the tenant to ensure that the term includes any period of holding over or continuation of the contractual term ( as it does in this lease by virtue of clause 3.8 ) although it must be considered highly unlikely that the tenant would be forced to yield up the premises to the landlord during a continuation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |