Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 No , I called him up in the week , in the holiday and I asked him to come to Shelley 's and he said call me back .
2 We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’
3 Then Sam says something else — I do n't know — so I grab him and I have him up against the wall and feet are off the ground , and I said , ‘ Sam , I hope you know what I mean , Sam ! ’
4 and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for .
5 She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time .
6 After that , she showed him up into a chamber at the top of the house .
7 Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way .
8 ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space .
9 But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter .
10 Yes , why did you pick him up with the cart ?
11 Erm can you push him up on the standard bearings ?
12 ‘ And when he attacked you , you picked him up like a baby in front of all those people , ’ Doone said .
13 Shall we put him up with the others ? ’
14 He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta .
15 So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ?
16 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 .
17 They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea .
18 Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good .
19 But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed .
20 I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’
21 It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know !
22 It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me .
23 He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house .
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