Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 2 | Then she has Darren until May picks him up at seven . |
| 3 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 4 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 5 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 6 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 7 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 8 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 9 | Mr Pinter gave him up to 15 minutes or so , and when he did not arrive , left . |
| 10 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |