Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 2 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 3 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 4 | ‘ I kicked him up the backside , ’ smiles Gray at the memory of their clash on a London soccer pitch when they were both 13-year-old ragamuffins . |
| 5 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 6 | My father threw his calipers away and went to Charlie Hancock the chemist , who made him up a bottle of oil from an old family recipe . |
| 7 | This , and you put him up every time he comes up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 10 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 11 | Generally , he came downstairs to wash and shave while she was doing this , but today she took him up a tray so he could have his breakfast in bed . |
| 12 | Can you hold him up a minute . |
| 13 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 14 | He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function , and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move . |
| 15 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |