Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love .
3 Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course .
4 Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl .
5 A bulky label helped him up to the belt .
6 Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine .
7 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 .
8 He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat .
9 The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again .
10 He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink .
11 His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point .
12 They tied her up to a tension , with many si sniggering jest .
13 yeah pulled it up to the shed and I 've left it there
14 And then they scraped and scraped and cleaned it and then they hung it up by the legs up , pulled it up to the steading , up to the ceiling .
15 Duncan stood back , against the wall , as Myeloski picked up one of the wooden chairs and pulled it up to the cot .
16 The old man took Yanek by the hand , led him up to the castle door , and knocked .
17 While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy .
18 Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things .
19 I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it .
20 She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job .
21 An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east .
22 ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out .
23 My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’
24 Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building .
25 The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room .
26 Mrs Beavis took her up to the first-floor landing .
27 Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation .
28 Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her .
29 Somewhere down there he stubbed himself against an ill-defined but hard mass of fact , and brought it up to the surface to examine it .
30 The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again .
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