Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 2 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 3 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 4 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 5 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |