Example sentences of "they opened up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne 's buses : they opened up the north-west for me .
6 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 .
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