Example sentences of "[verb] him up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
2 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
3 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
4 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
5 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
6 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
7 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
8 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
9 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
10 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
11 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
12 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
13 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
14 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
15 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
16 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
17 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
18 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
19 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
20 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
21 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
22 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
23 | Take this mutinous dog , hang him up from the yard arm , stripe him with the cat , douse him with salt , and when he comes to , flog him some more . ’ |
24 | The evening before , when the boy was buying a betel-leaf from a shop , the police had hauled him up as a vagabond ; they were responding to the jail authorities ' appeal to book more helpers … . |
25 | ‘ Lock him up in an interview room . |
26 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
27 | After that , she showed him up into a chamber at the top of the house . |
28 | On another occasion Ricky knocked Minton out on the platform of the Underground , afterwards propping him up on a bench until he recovered sufficiently to be walked home . |
29 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
30 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |