Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 2 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 3 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 4 | Yes yes I was I had a month 's terminal leave er I 'd er I 'd heard that there was a job going , er phoned them up on the on the Monday , had an interview Tuesday , started the Friday . |
| 5 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 6 | No I was talking to Julie yesterday , she phoned me up at the |
| 7 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 8 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 9 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 10 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 11 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 12 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 13 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 14 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 15 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 16 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 17 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 18 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 19 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
| 20 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 21 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 22 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 23 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 24 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 25 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 26 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 27 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
| 28 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 29 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 30 | She went straight to her jug of water and lifted it up by the handle and peered inside . |