Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [pron] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 2 | One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket . |
| 3 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 4 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 5 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 7 | One night I dressed up in one of Mum 's frocks and Frankie donned Dad 's billy-cock hat but in the middle of ‘ Rock of Ages ’ Dad returned . |
| 8 | Inevitably one night she ended up by going to bed with him . |
| 9 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 10 | As Gatfield points out , ‘ I ca n't work on a host of acts who I am vaguely interested in , just in case one day they come up with something exciting . |
| 11 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 12 | One day he looked up at her , met her eyes . |
| 13 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 14 | One day she turned up with the Raleigh bike because she was worried that I did n't get out much . |
| 15 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 16 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 17 | One morning we woke up in Tangier , where I was visiting Paul Bowles — a famous homosexual writer — and she was suffocating . |
| 18 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 19 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |