Example sentences of "it up to the " in BNC.

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1 Drill nail holes in the batten , hold it up to the wall , and drill through one batten hole into the tiling .
2 ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’
3 If not , you are obliged to top it up to the statutory level .
4 Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either .
5 He 'd fill it and carry it up to the wood in the blanket .
6 They should always leave it up to the man .
7 Everything about it up to the last page where Strauss wrote IN MEMORIAM ! and we hear the ‘ Eroica ’ theme for the last time .
8 He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents .
9 Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle .
10 You ca n't just leave it up to the police , or to someone else — and ignoring it wo n't make it go away .
11 There was a lot of discussion and in the end they decided they 'd leave it up to the caddies .
12 They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea .
13 If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on .
14 He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia .
15 Will you bring it up to the house tomorrow , instead ? ’ he shouted .
16 Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing .
17 When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’
18 Kirov held it up to the light , studying it .
19 He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed .
20 ‘ I take it up to the training ground and the players love it .
21 First is the inadequate definition of gold and silver , which leaves it up to the jury empanelled by the coroner , to whom the objects have been handed over , to decide if they are treasure or not .
22 Duncan stood back , against the wall , as Myeloski picked up one of the wooden chairs and pulled it up to the cot .
23 Bits of both Open Look and Motif are already in there — and some features will be handled as objects — although Cunningham admits it is unlikely to make it up to the XT intrinsics level , on top of which the various interface look and feels are created .
24 They had to forward it up to the Pentagon .
25 Holt can and does believe that children should have them as adults do , and then leaves it up to the child to decide whether or not to exercise them .
26 He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road .
27 Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin .
28 At the general meeting of 13 February mentioned above , and on advice from STA headquarters , conveyed by the ETS secretary John Common , the men voted to return to work on " the November conditions " , that is with an extra 2s 6d on the stab rate ( to bring it up to the Glasgow figure ) plus some concessions on overtime , but no joy on piece rates or on the question of hours .
29 However , the policy vacuum which was allowed to develop in this way was inadequately filled by leaving it up to the courts to formulate their own sentencing policy .
30 When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed .
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