Example sentences of "take [pers pn] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That takes me up to Easter . |
| 2 | How dared he take her up to heaven and then drop her — just like that ? |
| 3 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 4 | They conserve nutrients , especially nitrogen , by taking them up in autumn and releasing them in spring . |
| 5 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 6 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 7 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 8 | for an insulation company and we were on a Government funding and money ran out and it took us up to Christmas really and after Christmas we were out of work for four months |
| 9 | I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route . |
| 10 | Because Irina did not want to travel in one of the carts , Jehan had taken her up in front of him . |
| 11 | Within weeks , the Westminster Gazette ( 15 September 1898 ) had taken it up in order to ridicule the enemy forces in the Sudan campaign . |
| 12 | Joe Orr , the publican 's son , would surreptitiously take a beer bottle , ‘ fill it up when his father was n't about , see , and put it in his pocket , then take it up to granny . |
| 13 | ‘ Now go into the kitchen and take the tray which you 'll find waiting on the table on the left and take it up to room five on the third floor . ’ |