Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | The mul , and the Duchess of York will become a multi-millionairess , in her own right , as a result of the break up of the marriage to Andrew we can reveal today . |
2 | My job was to take the cart up on the moor to a place called Mile End , and you sat with it all day until they brought the grouse to you . |
3 | Anyhow we was supposed to , they set a field kitchen up in the farmyard to , as part of the exercise , to feed us er and er they handed out some meat pies , you know , we just had one ta oh taste and well |
4 | It appears that Geordie , the Newcastle chap who cheered things up during the trip to the beach last week , by being the first to run naked into the sea , was badly wounded when his jeep ran over a mine and the driver was killed . |
5 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
6 | The retired GP , aged 73 , who lives in the Spinney , Middleton St George , worked his way up through the order to the post of county surgeon for County Durham . |
7 | He used to bring his tools up during the war to er to er so be seen to you know . |