Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 2 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 3 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 4 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 5 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 6 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 7 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 8 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 9 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 10 | They used to , cos they 'd put a couple in the old anchor boat what we were n't using it , put a couple in there and they 'd tow 'em up to the dock . |
| 11 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 12 | Mhm so did they they give them up to the folk |
| 13 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 14 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 15 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 16 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
| 17 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 18 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 20 | Will you bring it up to the house tomorrow , instead ? ’ he shouted . |
| 21 | You can get I mean , it 's not connected up but you can have er you can have it connected it up to the ra , to the radio and get concerts through the stere |
| 22 | ‘ Help me carry it up to the house . ’ |
| 23 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
| 24 | Drill nail holes in the batten , hold it up to the wall , and drill through one batten hole into the tiling . |
| 25 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 26 | in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light |
| 27 | hold it up to the light |
| 28 | Once you are asleep they then inject the muscle relaxant , put an endro-t tracheal airway into your throat , connect you up to the anaesthetic machine and get the life-support machine breathing for you . |
| 29 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 30 | I want you to get someone to drive you up to the hospital to see her . |