Example sentences of "me up " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Pity there are n't a few more husbands to back me up , eh , Jack ? |
| 32 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 33 | That 's why I left — he kept beating me up . ’ |
| 34 | She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up . |
| 35 | He sticks it on his head and gives a big grin , like he 's trying to cheer me up . |
| 36 | Red , orange , green — they sort of fill me up with colours . |
| 37 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |
| 38 | On return a bath , and a final word with the Guard Commander , Whom I ask not to wake me up unless something goes ‘ bang ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ FOR GOD 'S SAKE , RING ME UP — I 'M GOING TO NEED YOU ’ |
| 40 | As she left Coleherne Court she left a poignant note for her flatmates , giving them her new telephone number : ‘ For God 's sake ring me up — I 'm going to need you . ’ |
| 41 | Far right : beam me up ! |
| 42 | I send my secretary there an SOS and she spends a day clearing up and dumping my old files , generally tidying me up as well . |
| 43 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 44 | And suddenly hearing something that is part of your body , out there , beyond your control , entering other people 's lives — it was too much for me , I just collapsed , crying , everyone had to hold me up … ‘ |
| 45 | If any song really chokes me up , it 's that one . |
| 46 | He just chatted me up . |
| 47 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
| 48 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 49 | The partner there was terribly embarrassed , rang me up and apologized for hours afterwards , could n't get him off the phone . |
| 50 | I am impressed like a child by grand size , grand sound , vastness in anything , infinity : that sums me up . |
| 51 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 52 | Look me up again when you are next in town , wo n't you ? |
| 53 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 54 | ‘ My Dad sent me up here . |
| 55 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 56 | I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night . |
| 57 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 58 | — He sat me up on his shoulders . |
| 59 | ‘ Even when he ca n't get round , he phones me up , just for a natter . ’ |
| 60 | You want to soften me up , do n't you ? |