Example sentences of "[vb past] him up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood .
2 He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace .
3 PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion .
4 I caught him up at last .
5 ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery .
6 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 .
7 Hazel caught him up by the culvert .
8 So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship .
9 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 .
10 His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle .
11 A bulky label helped him up to the belt .
12 They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning .
13 They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea .
14 Rincewind occasionally had nightmares about teetering on some intangible but enormously high place , and seeing a blue-distanced , cloud-punctuated landscape reeling away below him ( this usually woke him up with his ankles sweating ; he would have been even more worried had he known that the nightmare was not , as he thought , just the usual discworld vertigo .
15 He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him
16 The Bookman woke him up on his return .
17 I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it .
18 Mr Beaton told the court that he had been asleep in his cab when two men with Glasgow accents woke him up by placing a bag over his head .
19 Journalists woke him up in his bed with the news and , as I suspected , all hell broke loose .
20 He continued to suffer a great deal with poor health , which , he says , stirred him up to ‘ speak to sinners with some compassion as a dying man to dying men ’ .
21 Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall .
22 He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall .
23 She gobbled him up with it .
24 While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch .
25 Those two seemingly soothing hands hauled him up from out of the glove .
26 His employer paid him up to that point .
27 The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault .
28 Showed him up for what he really is .
29 After that , she showed him up into a chamber at the top of the house .
30 Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room .
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