Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 2 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 3 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 4 | ‘ My friend , Lord Auden and I cut one up the other day , ’ she says ( of an old mahogany sideboard ) . |
| 5 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 6 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 7 | ‘ I kicked him up the backside , ’ smiles Gray at the memory of their clash on a London soccer pitch when they were both 13-year-old ragamuffins . |
| 8 | It slowed things up to keep slipping it in and out of my jeans pocket so after a while I tucked it up the sleeve of my jersey . |
| 9 | I have them up the front bedroom window . |
| 10 | A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . " |
| 11 | Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way . ’ |
| 12 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 13 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 14 | In fact if you add it up the moon can go round the earth thirteen times in a year . |
| 15 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 16 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 17 | Instead , here she was , creeping around her own house like a burglar , trying to avoid a man who rubbed her up the wrong way . |
| 18 | And how did you get them up the station ? |
| 19 | When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room . |
| 20 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 21 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
| 22 | She said nothing , but allowed him to assist her up the steeply rising earth bank . |
| 23 | He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function , and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 25 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 26 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 27 | and then he got it up the back that far |
| 28 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 29 | He helped her up the veranda steps and , taking a large key from his pocket , opened the arched door and stood aside for her to precede him . |
| 30 | ‘ He wants you up the flange-plates , ’ said Tam as they sat down . |