Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter did not look at her as she walked towards him up the chancel : he stood waiting , holding the paten , the first moonlike communion wafer ready between finger and thumb . |
| 2 | It might only drive both of us up the poll ! |
| 3 | The two of them broke away ; I struggled behind them up the duneside . |
| 4 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 5 | Because personal power is the promotion of self , we send positive data on ourselves up the hierarchy and forget to send the negative data — that is , we tell our superiors how good we are . |
| 6 | K ! sdra squinted at him up the length of the sword . |