Example sentences of "me up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Run home , get changed wait , have a bath then go up to they 'll pick me up to go babysitting over there . |
| 2 | Mum lifted me up to see Gran and I recall the peaceful look which she had . |
| 3 | She took me up to see her room , which she had to herself until she was joined by another-middle aged woman without children . |
| 4 | I nearly lost my life again , when a lady picked me up to put me in the boat . |
| 5 | I croaked out , which hospital , but she had n't a clue and sent me up to ask somebody called Coleman . " |
| 6 | Yeah , she phoned me up to ask me what she should do about Beryl . |
| 7 | Well , she phones me up to say could she bring a friend home for Christmas . |
| 8 | You know the people who rang me up to say hey sixteen thousand on nine over five years ? |
| 9 | She rang me up to say she 'd be home . |
| 10 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 11 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 12 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 13 | ‘ People phone me up to invite me out and I 'll be like , ’ she puts on a whiny voice , ‘ Oh no , I 'd like to stay home and watch a video or read a book . ’ |
| 14 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 15 | Now today if you rang me up to do removals , we do n't work the same way . |
| 16 | The Lady Prioress had to sober me up to send me to Woodstock . |
| 17 | ‘ My father had brought me up to combine business activities with social concern , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Er , she rings me up to tell me to ring her back up |
| 19 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 20 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 21 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 22 | Friends took me up to have a closer look at it , and I understand the pilot , who was an Australian , managed to bale out and came down safely somewhere near Balder Head . |