Example sentences of "him up " in BNC.
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1 | Picked him up at Imperial College . |
2 | I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast . |
3 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
4 | The British production company Zenith were so impressed by Hal Hartley 's first feature that they signed him up to make TRUST , which we will be screening at the festival . |
5 | I stood him up . |
6 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
7 | From time to time she had to pull him up . |
8 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
9 | After bringing in the evening meal one night ( some ribs of mutton with a jacket potato — they were softening him up ) , Jamie left the door unlocked . |
10 | ‘ That 's not true , I 've brought him up Irish . ’ |
11 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
12 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
13 | He 's very friendly toward people and usually lets anyone pick him up and stroke him , even when he 's eating . |
14 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
15 | Yet it is not just his commitments with the Royal Ballet that hold him up , it is also his unusually intense way of making a work . |
16 | He took three audacious fours off an over from Hemmings , and the loss of Vengsarkar , flicking at one of Fraser 's worst deliveries , did nothing to sober him up . |
17 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
18 | Sources also pointed to the swift response of troops loyal to General Noriega , especially the 7th Infantry , as evidence that he can still count on important parts of the military to back him up . |
19 | I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later . |
20 | Kerly , exchanging with his captain Richard Leman , slotted in No. 4 in the 48th minute and completed his hat-trick in the last minute after Thompson had set him up . |
21 | With the boyfriend there is evidence that Mrs Weber killed him and chopped him up with a chain saw , but there is no corpse . |
22 | An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 . |
23 | Brian Jones , secretary of the Merit Table organisation , which brings together Wales 's 18 senior clubs , is putting him up . |
24 | Glover grinned : ‘ I ran him at Ayr just to freshen him up . |
25 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
26 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
27 | Two French Commandos take over and carry their wounded comrade the remaining part of the way ; he manages a smile as they pick him up . |
28 | Moll 's denunciation of Laxton before she beats him up shows that the thrashing is partly in revenge for his not untypical masculine blend of misogyny and licentiousness ( cf. ii . |
29 | A copper chased him up there . |
30 | I was deputed to phone him up and apologise . |