Example sentences of "him up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 2 | His mother had brought him up to hold priests in fearful reverence . |
| 3 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 4 | ‘ We were very surprised that someone did n't snap him up to go jumping . |
| 5 | The building intrigued Modigliani , and he asked Osterlind to take him up to see Renoir . |
| 6 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 7 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 8 | After dark he grew restless and they had to tie him up to stop him following the jackals which howled around the village at night . |
| 9 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 10 | Got ta bring him up to scratch . |
| 11 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | The Swindon-based GWR Group 's signed him up to revive his Sunday morning slot . |
| 13 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 14 | Eventually she literally dragged him up to shake hands . |
| 15 | In these circumstances I think that Darwin can rest quietly in his grave , that is to say of the acidulous palaeontologists have n't already been trying to dig him up to prove something . |
| 16 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 17 | The British production company Zenith were so impressed by Hal Hartley 's first feature that they signed him up to make TRUST , which we will be screening at the festival . |
| 18 | Two other watchers take hold of him , lift him up to remove his shoes and thrust him into the dance . |
| 19 | It was well known that the foreman and the shop steward in question were always in dispute , and it appeared to the majority that the foreman had , in fact , set him up to get rid of him and to settle an old account . |