Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] up the " in BNC.
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1 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
2 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
3 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
4 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
5 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
6 | He wrote not one memo about it but , by his estimate , as many as five , and sent them up the line . |
7 | At the end of January Pop decided to go south to our villages , and sent us up the Irrawaddy to Maymyo . |
8 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |
9 | He wrapped her in a scarlet blanket , and carried her up the outside area steps . |
10 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
11 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |