Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up and [verb] him " 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 | Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves . |
| 3 | She completely ignored her husband until he fell asleep in his chair , whereupon she woke him up and berated him all the way up the stairs , their shouting and swearing affecting the children not one iota . |
| 4 | He was on Muizenburg Beach , then a popular resort , when a stranger came he up and asked him in Afrikaans ‘ Is your name Cranko ? ’ |
| 5 | Marc Boyle was brought in to help me and , when everything was ready , he and I stood Michael on a wooden tray , lifted it up and threw him through the roof . ’ |
| 6 | His father raised him up and gave him the kiss of peace . |
| 7 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 8 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
| 9 | Evans has admitted buying petrol that night , but says White attacked the couple , tied them up and forced him and Sheila Stroud to drive to the clifftop . |
| 10 | But his letter posed as many questions as it answered , so I rang him up and asked him if he was willing to come and see me . |
| 11 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 12 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 13 | He reportedly said : ‘ I tied him up and killed him . |
| 14 | Maybe she tied him up and gave him soft whip . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again , |
| 22 | I picked him up and kissed him until the screaming changed to crying . |
| 23 | Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman . |
| 24 | He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him . |
| 25 | Then she went out and picked him up and cuddled him and fed him on the cream of a new bottle of milk . |
| 26 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 27 | ‘ He hit me with the Christmas tree , so I picked it up and hit him back , ’ Lorraine told bemused police in Newport , Gwent , yesterday . |