Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 2 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 3 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
| 4 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 5 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 6 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 7 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 8 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 9 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 10 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 11 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 12 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |
| 13 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 14 | If she thought her troubles would be over when and if I caught up with the blackmailer , she was way off . |
| 15 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |
| 16 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 17 | She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance . |
| 18 | Even if she came up with the money , Clive was not about to hand over a bag in the open . |
| 19 | If you grew up in the Bill and Ben age then you might be a little confused by the exhuberance of the Sesame Street characters but if you 're under 30 , a long way under 30 , you 'll know Purple Honker , Telemonster , Elmo , Grover and Cookie Monster pretty well . |
| 20 | If you looked up to the right there was just a green shoulder and endless sky , day after day blue . |
| 21 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 22 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 23 | Two mini Margis in the stalls are the target of most of the ad libs , and they respond as if they grew up with the star . |
| 24 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 25 | I thought to myself that , however far they had wandered , if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate . |
| 26 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 27 | If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone . |
| 28 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |
| 29 | If he turned up in the middle of Stephie 's visit , then tough ! |
| 30 | I did not like the idea very much as Sid was a smoker , and if he lit up during the night it was possible that we both could end up with a Blighty , or worse ! |