Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 9 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 12 | Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck . |
| 13 | Her mind in a whirl , her body in an equally unstable condition , Robbie followed him up the hillside . |
| 14 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 15 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 16 | Masklin pulled himself up the wire and on to the table , feeling very exposed . |
| 17 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 20 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 21 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 22 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 25 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 26 | He wrote not one memo about it but , by his estimate , as many as five , and sent them up the line . |
| 27 | She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden . |
| 28 | Gary brought him up the hospital to meet me he would n't speak to any of the nurses |
| 29 | That was a good bit when he fucked her up the arse . |
| 30 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |