Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pron] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 2 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 3 | Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’ |
| 4 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 5 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 6 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |
| 7 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 8 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |