Example sentences of "[pron] up the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That bitch has led you up the garden path ! ’ |
| 2 | His intention , when he starts his courses for coaches , is to warm them up the Medau way . |
| 3 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 4 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 5 | so and not only that if Gary meets me up the train station we can go straight into town on our own , leave him with Pat . |
| 6 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 7 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 8 | When he had gone , she dragged herself up the iron staircase to her own room . |
| 9 | There were cries of shock and protest at Carmella 's outburst but Sean grabbed his young sister 's arm and , roughly pushing people aside , he dragged her up the centre aisle . |
| 10 | Ari had no positive idea which rooms Tammuz and Zambia occupied and was babbling nonsense to this effect as Lennon hauled her up the metal stairway to the gallery . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Kate had to pull the girl from the car and practically drag her up the garden path to the house . |
| 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 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 15 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 16 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 17 | So I said to Geoff I 'll get it up the village shop . |
| 18 | Is it up the top B , that one |
| 19 | As I run I 'm computing the Mamba 's speed in that heavy black frock against my chances of making it up the north transept steps before he rounds the corner . |
| 20 | What is it like to have a very quick labour , when instead of the agonising hours in the delivery room , you 're not sure you 're going to make it up the hospital steps ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 23 | The signs are not always immediately apparent or indicative , and can easily lead us up the garden path ; we have to learn to recognize the various spots and blemishes , however small . |