Example sentences of "walked up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We walked up into the Heath
2 A burst of applause greeted caddies and players as they walked up into the arena .
3 Loretta got out of her car , walked up to the door , lifted the knocker and rapped timidly .
4 She walked up to the villa .
5 She walked up to the gate at the end of Kee 's garden and waited .
6 Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun .
7 I walked up to the bar , passing several people I had never seen before who were obviously volunteers .
8 He walked up to the pram and looked down at the young child .
9 He sang that old sea song as he walked up to the inn door :
10 He walked up to the green and found a spot to land on .
11 Both players walked up to the green , collected their putters and started to study the line .
12 We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me .
13 And then the Sergeant nudged Devlin and he walked up to the desk where Cardiff was sitting .
14 Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside .
15 On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’
16 The rest of the legend states that Felix and Regula picked up their heads , waded through the water , and walked up to the hill where the Grossmunster now stands , before expiring .
17 The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it .
18 As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour .
19 There were cries of ‘ take the chair ’ and Hegarty walked up to the mayor 's chair .
20 He then fired at Pc Kelly through the police car windscreen , and as the officer lay injured across the front seat walked up to the car , put his hand on the roof to steady himself and emptied the gun into the officer 's body .
21 Endill walked up to the picture frame and noticed there was nothing in it but a blank piece of paper , yellow with age .
22 Once when dancing with Minton at the Gargoyle and hearing some Guards officers making snide remarks he walked up to the table , laden with food and champagne , where they were sitting with their ladies and overturned the lot , and was barred from the club for about two weeks .
23 He walked up to the table , smiled , pulled out a chair and sat down .
24 I believe I gave Joe a bit of a shock when I walked up to the table and played a few shots with him .
25 ‘ In the stunned silence that followed , Miss Honey walked up to the front of the class and stood behind her table .
26 And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ?
27 I walked up from the road , " I said .
28 He walked up behind the dog and kicked its arse .
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