Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 2 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |
| 3 | Jenny , of Willenhall , West Midlands , said she dreamed up the dish after she visited her boyfriend in hospital and found a strange girl at his bedside . |
| 4 | Radio ham Chris Thorndyke , 45 , from Bury St Edmonds , Suffolk , said she picked up the report . |
| 5 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |
| 6 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 7 | She hoped he picked up the phone quickly . |
| 8 | The London driver said he picked up the brothers at Grosvenor House Hotel after the Players ' Union awards dinner last Sunday . |