Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 2 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 3 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 4 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 5 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 6 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 7 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
| 8 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 9 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 10 | Somehow , she 'd have to end it before they moved up to the room , or the suite , or whatever Charlie 's contact had lined up for them . |
| 11 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 12 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 13 | ‘ And mind out , ’ Ma Bombie warned them as they lined up outside the classroom . |
| 14 | They lined up behind the elastic . |
| 15 | Just as she had expected , there were lights still ablaze as they drew up before the house . |
| 16 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |
| 17 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
| 18 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 19 | They caught up in the air did n't they ? |
| 20 | Right they dried up upon the earth . |
| 21 | By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained . |
| 22 | Every month they drove up into the hills , their sheet folded neatly in the trunk , their lust , by contrast , scarcely containable . |
| 23 | They drove up to the crossroads at the centre of the town . |
| 24 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 25 | They drove up towards the countryside , trees and fields appearing on the horizon . |
| 26 | They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son . |
| 27 | They came up to the Renault . |
| 28 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 29 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 30 | They came up with the council tax . |