Example sentences of "[vb past] me up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 4 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 5 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 6 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 11 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 12 | The hand pulled me up towards the ceiling . |
| 13 | Someone rang me up on a phone-in programme , and he said ‘ I read your book , I think it 's absolutely disgusting . ’ |
| 14 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 15 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 16 | It brought me up against the fact that I 'd like him to be better off so I could have more options . |
| 17 | She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job . |
| 18 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 19 | ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out . |
| 20 | My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | He put me up in a hostel , but it was filthy and I … , |
| 22 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 23 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 24 | Later in the afternoon the sheriff 's men came back and dragged me up before the justices . |
| 25 | He knocked my gun from my hand then pushed me up against the wall , pressing his own gun into my stomach . |
| 26 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 27 | Two of the archers picked me up under the armpits and hustled me down the steps of the scaffold . |
| 28 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 29 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 30 | ‘ They picked me up from a Sunday team near White Hart Lane when I was 11 and there are a lot like me , ’ Watson said . |