Example sentences of "[verb] me up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pick me up on the way . |
| 2 | They 're erm , I erm , said goodbye come and pick me up by the school . |
| 3 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 4 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 5 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 6 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 7 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 8 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 9 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 10 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 11 | I 'd like to skip over this decision because it wakes me up in a sweat fairly often . |
| 12 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 13 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 14 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 15 | That still messes me up on the guitar . ’ |
| 16 | Sam had volunteered to pick me up at the hospital . |
| 17 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 18 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 19 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 20 | He 's done me up like a kipper and I fucking fell for it . |
| 21 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 22 | I used to say it was like people waking me up in the morning and throwing money in through my bedroom window . |
| 23 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 24 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 25 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 26 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 27 | Aye just , if the two of yous get me up on the settee I 'll be alright , me and her ah ah ah ah ! |
| 28 | I have to go to bed early and then Mum gets me up in the morning she 's going get up ! |
| 29 | They set me up as a target . |
| 30 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |