Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go .
2 Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep .
3 Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required .
4 Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ?
5 You got to meet me up the railway .
6 The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach .
7 Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August .
8 But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could .
9 He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive .
10 ‘ He wants you up the flange-plates , ’ said Tam as they sat down .
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 It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations .
13 For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch .
14 He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility .
15 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 .
16 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 …
17 His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope .
18 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 .
19 Yeah , she 's meeting her up the Tavern .
20 A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly .
21 But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path .
22 TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying .
23 We can see them up the top but
24 ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path !
25 It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open .
26 and run them up the strips .
27 She 'll ring me up the day before . ’
28 DC Robin Lane leads them up the alleyway to the front door .
29 Ah meet you up the park then ?
30 Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show .
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