Example sentences of "took [pers pn] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 2 | ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out . |
| 3 | My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 5 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 6 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 7 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 8 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 9 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 10 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 12 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 13 | The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room . |
| 14 | Mrs Beavis took her up to the first-floor landing . |
| 15 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 16 | Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation . |
| 17 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 18 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 19 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 20 | We took it up with the Education Officer who asked for information about the family . |
| 21 | I put the matter in the hands of a local lawyer , and he took it up with the magistrates . |
| 22 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 23 | Sixteen of us flew into Delhi — and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains . |