Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 3 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 4 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 5 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 6 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 7 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 8 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 9 | Well Zoe said tell me up the school |
| 10 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 11 | The idea of the Sudan had followed us up the Nile like a rumour . |
| 12 | He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility . |