Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first . |
| 2 | If men with guns had come up to seize him , he 'd have cried out shamelessly in his terror . |
| 3 | She felt the shivers again as she ate her meal and frequently looked up to find him watching her , his eyes on the glitter of her silvery hair . |
| 4 | ROYAL baby doctor Sir George Pinker arrived for a quiet lunch yesterday — to find Princess Diana and 1,000 other people had turned up to honour him . |
| 5 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 6 | She had given up calling him ‘ sir ’ , he noticed . |
| 7 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 8 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 9 | There is no legislative assembly although on Nov. 8 , 1990 , King Fahd announced that a long promised Consultative Council ( Majlis al-Shura ) would be set up to help him run the country without specifying a date for its creation . |
| 10 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 11 | PERHAPS the most striking aspect of the John Birt affair has been the enthusiasm with which the great and the good of 1980s British television have lined up to kick him when he is down . |
| 12 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 13 | ‘ Patrick weighed 8lb 7oz — ‘ I 'm lucky he was a big baby , or I might have ended up having him even more quickly . |