Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me .
2 And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week .
3 Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water .
4 But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ .
5 ‘ Sharp followed him in and picked up a 12-inch knife and threatened to kill him and other staff .
6 He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem .
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