Example sentences of "i [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept up the stairs and stuck my head between the banisters , but the landing was empty . |
| 2 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 3 | To cap all I suffered a physical hallucination as I staggered up the road beyond the inlet of Enard Bay : I could clearly see a row of cottages at the top of the hill but when I got there , they had vanished . |
| 4 | We awaited their arrival with much curiosity , and on the morning of March 23rd 1944 , as I cycled up the hill to work , the new aircraft started to arrive , ‘ beating up ’ the airfield to make sure we were aware that 105 Squadron was here . |
| 5 | I sneaked up the stairs to Flat 3 , tiptoeing by the door of No. 2 so as not to disturb Lisabeth and Fenella , the two dragons who inhabited that particular dungeon . |
| 6 | One of the birds shat on Gravel as I pedalled up the path to town on the Tuesday morning . |
| 7 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 8 | We swam back to the boat , I climbed up the steps fastened near the stern , and gave her a helping hand . |
| 9 | As the day began to cool in the later afternoon , I walked up the hill road behind Reckweilerhof through twelve hundred feet of gently sloping sward . |
| 10 | While he was out of sight of the gate I walked up the drive , opened the front door with the key Karen had given me , and ran upstairs . |
| 11 | I first saw the Baroness as I walked up the drive of Askham Grange prison . |
| 12 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 13 | ‘ I walked up the street and checked this before I came here , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I could n't help noticing as I walked up the path . |
| 15 | I glanced up the path , which did look steep and rather rough . |
| 16 | I flew up the stairs to find a huge hole in the ceiling , at the foot of the bed covered with plaster and ice . |
| 17 | Making a gesture of explanation , I started up the hill . |
| 18 | I trailed up the hill after the others , thinking how different she looked wearing that stiff new uniform instead of her tatty little cotton dress and gym shoes . |
| 19 | I told him they were in bed and I dashed up the stairs , two at a time , to fetch them . |
| 20 | I looked up the road and there was two great big signs , no right turn . |
| 21 | Curious , I went up the path to have a look at it and I discovered to my no great surprise that it marked the entrance to a churchyard . |
| 22 | I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch . |
| 23 | I went up the steps and into the hotel . |
| 24 | I went up the stairs , where there was a note on Mr Pocket 's door , saying ‘ Returning soon . ’ |
| 25 | Without a sound , I went up the steps , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 26 | Quickly , I went up the hill to watch . |
| 27 | I went up the stairs and very slowly opened the door . |
| 28 | I went up the road and it went bang and blew a out the back ! |
| 29 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 30 | So I carried it carefully like this , arm round the waist you see and off I went up the road for about forty fifty yards and put one in . |