Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 But anyway , he came up on the Monday er sorry , on the Friday when they was paying out , he said , Which chappie paid you ?
2 Her father , when he came up before the Farnham Commission , had proved extraordinarily resilient , but he had still caved in , and then he had proved richly satisfying .
3 All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination .
4 This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls .
5 He finished up in the Beefeaters .
6 ‘ Cast off , ’ he called up to the Baglietto 's crewman .
7 So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her
8 My old mate , Malc Bassford , had 3 lb next to me — he is definitely getting better as that is his best weight since he bagged up on the River Cam 20 years ago .
9 Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth .
10 He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces .
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