Example sentences of "up [prep] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 2 | You remember how Rosamund Coldharbour set you up for him in the matter of typing that sermon ? ’ |
| 3 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 4 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 5 | So now I have to put up with him on the boat . |
| 6 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 7 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 8 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 9 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 10 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 11 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 12 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 13 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 14 | ‘ When I check up on him in the morning he asks for you . |
| 15 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 16 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 17 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 18 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 19 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 20 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 21 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 22 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 23 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 25 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 26 | Turning around to peer up at him in the gathering darkness , Laura had no clue what he was thinking as she viewed his bland expression , which echoed the studied unconcern in his voice . |
| 27 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |