Example sentences of "[verb] me up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go . |
| 2 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 4 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 5 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 6 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 7 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 8 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 9 | so and not only that if Gary meets me up the train station we can go straight into town on our own , leave him with Pat . |
| 10 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 11 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 12 | She 'll ring me up the day before . ’ |
| 13 | Well Zoe said tell me up the school |
| 14 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 15 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 16 | Well can Clay take me up the bingo ? |
| 17 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 18 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 19 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 20 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 21 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 22 | ‘ Turn me up the right way , chief . |
| 23 | I had murder with [ my GP ] ‘ cos , when I went , I was in a bad way and me mam took me up the doctor 's and he just said : ‘ I wo n't give you methadone . |
| 24 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 25 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 26 | I cried out and then more waves came up over my face and … well , just coughing and Bert carrying me up the cliff . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 28 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |