Example sentences of "[verb] i 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 You got to meet me up the railway .
3 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 .
4 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 .
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 It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open .
8 She 'll ring me up the day before . ’
9 Well Zoe said tell me up the school
10 He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front .
11 Well can Clay take me up the bingo ?
12 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 .
13 It started to suck me up the face .
14 I had murder with [ my GP ] ‘ cos , when I went , I was in a bad way and me mam took me up the doctor 's and he just said : ‘ I wo n't give you methadone .
15 He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time .
16 It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac .
17 I cried out and then more waves came up over my face and … well , just coughing and Bert carrying me up the cliff . ’
18 Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand .
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