Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 2 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 3 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 4 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 5 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 6 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 7 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 8 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 9 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 10 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 11 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 12 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 13 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 14 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
| 15 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 16 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 17 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 18 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 19 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 20 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 21 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 22 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 23 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 24 | She went straight to her jug of water and lifted it up by the handle and peered inside . |
| 25 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 26 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 27 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 28 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
| 29 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 30 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |