Example sentences of "they [vb past] up the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 2 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 3 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 4 | They went up the curving Georgian staircase to Bragg 's room , and hung their bowlers on the bentwood hat-stand . |
| 5 | They held up the bright new diesel buses and , even worse , blocked the progress of private motorists in bulbous Austins and lumpen Humbers in canyon-like city thoroughfares . |