I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
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He thought they had made coffee, and he could just remember coming upstairs .
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They come upstairs and sit around the breakfast table.
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Becky hadn't heard Nadine come upstairs yet.
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Jess has not yet come upstairs .
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Then one day I came upstairs and caught her with her hand on my doorknob.
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He waited until Lois came upstairs for her little afternoon nap.
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Ruthven was placed in the chamber next to ours and came upstairs just after us.
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It was a little after two when Jim came upstairs , and Karen knew he would be tired this morning.
get
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The minute he got upstairs he shut his door and examined the leg minutely, but he gave up in the end.
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The first change came when he got upstairs and found Firebug rolling under the thick comforter with some one.
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But when he got upstairs and looked in his wardrobe the leg had gone.
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When Jane got upstairs the office they were using was jammed with people and cameras and equipment.
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But at night he couldn't wait to get upstairs , sometimes dragging Kate by the wrists in a steel grip.
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So I thought, I've got to get upstairs and find something, some means.
go
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She saw Vincent's father as he went upstairs to confront his son.
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Jen went upstairs to read her e-mail.
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He had left Marler in the bar, saying he was going upstairs for a shower.
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Dunne excused himself, said good night to Cassidy, nodded to the Gallaghers, and went upstairs .
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He was going upstairs for his siesta.
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Then he went upstairs , said goodnight to Dooley and took a hot shower.
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He did not go upstairs , but he did ring the 110 emergency number and ask for the police.
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I went upstairs , undressed, and got into bed.
live
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We live downstairs and there's an old lady called Mrs Parker who lives upstairs .
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I.C.B. was interested in our neighbours - particularly a large family that lived upstairs at the time.
run
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Fluid took up air space ... you never saw anyone with emphysema run upstairs .
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They run upstairs and push past the uniformed policeman guarding the door of the apartment.
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They ate steak pudding with exceptional appetite and, when everything was cleared away, Melanie ran upstairs to comb her hair.
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She ran upstairs and found her mother in the doorway glaring back into her bedroom.
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He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry and ran upstairs and into the study.
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Norm turned without a word and ran upstairs .
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We ran upstairs , knocking aside startled servants.
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Quickly, she picked up the key, locked the door, and ran upstairs to be alone in her room.
walk
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She walked upstairs and changed quickly, slipping on a light flowered sundress in bold colours and her flat sandals.
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After the crowd has thinned, after the little girls have been dragged off by their parents, Jess walks upstairs .
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Spike turns and walks upstairs proudly.
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He crossed the lobby and walked upstairs to the mezzanine where he found a bar with a view of the doors.
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Then I walked upstairs to the dressing-rooms.
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The boy walked upstairs on the Stairway backward, singing.
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As they walked upstairs , there was a bright flash of lightning outside, followed by loud thunder.
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They walk upstairs to the coffee counter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kick sb upstairs
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't go upstairs - Mom's still getting dressed.
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Don't you think the woman upstairs is kind of strange?
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Flora watched Mrs Brown staggering upstairs with a heavy tray.
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Lucy came rushing upstairs after her sister.
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My office is upstairs on the right.
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The bathroom is upstairs on your left.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I picked up the phone when Nyrene was upstairs .
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I ran into the house and upstairs into Mrs Goreng's dressing-room, which commanded the best view.
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I went upstairs , undressed, and got into bed.
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Or you can stay upstairs in your apartment and the same thing will be true.
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Other members of their families were upstairs dancing, and afterwards they all walked home in a group.
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Relaxing upstairs in a warm bath, he suddenly realized he was not unwinding in just any old bathroom.
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The children had been taken upstairs .
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
room
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Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit.
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Thérèse cried: I was just going to do his room upstairs .
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He stayed there, in a room upstairs , and sometimes I slept in a room downstairs.
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When morning came, nobody in that room upstairs would answer their calls, so they were forced to break in.
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My Maria was in a small bed in a cold room upstairs , coughing badly.
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Greta Ross was painting in her room upstairs .
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They made the girl go back to Baskerville Hall with them, and locked her in a room upstairs .
way
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Henry paused on his way upstairs .
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And on your way upstairs , don't forget the bannisters and those tricky areas in between the rails on your staircase.
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Of course, we hardly needed to say, as we made our way upstairs , that we were both nervous wrecks.
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Quickly, Craig made his way upstairs to his brother's room.
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Once inside, we joined the crowd on their way upstairs to the gallery.
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Then she smiles, nods me in, and leads the way upstairs .
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At 4am armed men came into my house forcing their way upstairs to my bedroom.
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With a flash of yellowing teeth, a shake of henna-dyed curls, she sent Claudel on his way upstairs .
window
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Anne waved her off, watching, nervous and apprehensive, from the upstairs window .
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Parker slept and ate at an upstairs window .
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Finally Rezia throws the keys down from an upstairs window .
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Flames were now shooting skyward, and the upstairs windows showed a red glow.
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Adèle and I watched from an upstairs window as the carriages arrived.
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Paint was flaking from door and window frames, cracked glass in an upstairs window was held together with paste and brown paper.
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No. 2's fitted on to half the back of the house, leaving a downstairs and an upstairs window free.
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Its traditional upstairs windows are now uncurtained and uninhabited, two bars at street level its only function.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The old man upstairs decided that you and I would share this cell.