Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 2 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 3 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 4 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 5 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 8 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 9 | Shelley , already on her feet , carried her up to the medical centre with Carlos 's help . |
| 10 | Her carried her up to the solar and delivered her over to the care of his sister and Ellen , leaving her with a look in his blue eyes that clearly said later . |
| 11 | Then they backed it up to the front door and they all charged inside . ’ |