Example sentences of "[pron] up and [verb] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he drew closer and they came face to face , she drew herself up and eyed him coldly . |
| 2 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 3 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 4 | Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get |
| 5 | sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again , |
| 6 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
| 7 | If anyone still has his number , they can ring him up and tell him so . |
| 8 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 9 | I heard you both the other day raising your voices , I think you stir him up and lead him on . |
| 10 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 11 | ‘ Luke Denner , you see , did n't know how to handle this girl who fell into his life out of nowhere , who mixed him up and puzzled him too , because there was something , someone else beneath the surface . |
| 12 | If you cut him up and pulled him out of your body — which is what they do — ’ |
| 13 | ’ Well , look , spruce him up and send him in . |
| 14 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He hit me with the Christmas tree , so I picked it up and hit him back , ’ Lorraine told bemused police in Newport , Gwent , yesterday . |