Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up the [noun sg] " 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 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 .
11 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 .
12 He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility .
13 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 .
14 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 …
15 His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope .
16 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 .
17 A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly .
18 But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path .
19 TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying .
20 We can see them up the top but
21 ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path !
22 It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open .
23 She 'll ring me up the day before . ’
24 DC Robin Lane leads them up the alleyway to the front door .
25 Ah meet you up the park then ?
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that .
29 Flagwavers , flag-wearers and flag-burners — from JIMI HENDRIX and THE NICE , through THE DOORS and THE WHO , to SONIC YOUTH and THE MANICS , they 've all run it up the flagpole to see who salutes .
30 ‘ Send me a Capex and I 'll run it up the flagpole . ’
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