Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 2 | Grant brought up the rear , using his arms only to haul himself up the rope . |
| 3 | Just push it up the bum . |
| 4 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 5 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 6 | The signs are not always immediately apparent or indicative , and can easily lead us up the garden path ; we have to learn to recognize the various spots and blemishes , however small . |
| 7 | A change in our fortunes at Kenilworth Road will soon get us up the table . ’ |
| 8 | He gave it a stab which only just carried it up the slope and onto the edge of the green . |
| 9 | Kate had to pull the girl from the car and practically drag her up the garden path to the house . |
| 10 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 11 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 12 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 13 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 14 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 15 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |