Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope .
2 Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep .
3 She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden .
4 Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August .
5 But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could .
6 I had murder with [ my GP ] ‘ cos , when I went , I was in a bad way and me mam took me up the doctor 's and he just said : ‘ I wo n't give you methadone .
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