Example sentences of "him up as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 2 | My men picked him up as he came over the Luxembourg border . |
| 3 | He did n't even notice the tannoy , he was already as tired as I was and he could barely stand ; I had to keep waking him up as he was swaying . |
| 4 | I 'll bring him up as my own but he 's keeping his own father 's name . ’ |
| 5 | Though Washington 's rival Marcus Garvey lauded Johnson and held him up as man to be revered by blacks ( 1967 , volume I , p.13 ) . |
| 6 | Molly took a handkerchief and tidied him up as though he were the room . |
| 7 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 8 | Dr Ian Rolfe , then of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow snapped him up as supervisor of YOPs on a Manpower Services scheme to develop fossils in rock which had been excavated in Australia in the 1960s . |
| 9 | That came nine minutes from time when Steve Thornber scored with his shin after sub John Williams set him up as Swansea caught Pool on the counter-attack . |