Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] the [num ord] " 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 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
3 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
4 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
7 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
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 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
10 | She picked it up at the third ring . |