Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility . |
| 3 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 4 | TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying . |
| 5 | Jonathan wanted us to put ours up the weekend and I thought well |
| 6 | His intention , when he starts his courses for coaches , is to warm them up the Medau way . |
| 7 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said erm I shall ha I 'll have to send you up the hospital and you 'll have to have a you know |
| 10 | Generally , it will be best to run it up the corner of the kitchen which coincides with the corner of a room upstairs . |
| 11 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 12 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 13 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 14 | The cuffs have a large opening secured by two buttons making it very easy to roll them up the arm . |
| 15 | In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum . |
| 16 | Members of Tendring District Council 's housing services committee voted by 12 to one to reject a motion recommending married couples should be awarded 100 extra points in order to move them up the queue for council housing . |
| 17 | I bought it in village in Mark 's Wood I used to take it up the runway and |
| 18 | Trying to cut you up the arse |
| 19 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 20 | What is it like to have a very quick labour , when instead of the agonising hours in the delivery room , you 're not sure you 're going to make it up the hospital steps ? |
| 21 | Did they actually have to bring it up the estuary ? |
| 22 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |