Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 3 | Sadly , most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball . |
| 4 | A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five . |
| 5 | ‘ That bitch has led you up the garden path ! ’ |
| 6 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 7 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 8 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 9 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 10 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 11 | A gentle breeze helped nudge us up the first incline — then the next , and the next , before we reached a tricky scramble round a rocky peak . |
| 12 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 13 | What is it like to have a very quick labour , when instead of the agonising hours in the delivery room , you 're not sure you 're going to make it up the hospital steps ? |
| 14 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 15 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 16 | For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch . |
| 17 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 18 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 19 | He said erm I shall ha I 'll have to send you up the hospital and you 'll have to have a you know |
| 20 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 21 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 22 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 23 | Did they actually have to bring it up the estuary ? |
| 24 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 25 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 26 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 27 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 28 | Well Zoe said tell me up the school |
| 29 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 30 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |