Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] me up " in BNC.

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1 Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go .
2 I said I 'd phone me up .
3 I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen .
4 But nobody will back me up !
5 They 're all saying and they 're all talking but I 'm the only one , I have been at the council , I have been at the councillor , I have been at Waterloo Place , but nobody will back me up at all !
6 Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up .
7 But you may look me up .
8 I have a friend in London who 'll put me up until I get myself sorted out .
9 You 'll set me up in my own flat — ’
10 You 'll show me up !
11 You 'll pick me up at the flat as usual on your way into town this evening , Rory ? ’
12 She 'll ring me up the day before . ’
13 I also wanted to see Mussolini , who was coming to Trieste on an official visit , so I wrote to my godmother 's sister , Poldka , who lived there , to ask if she could put me up .
14 ‘ Leave the people who could connect me up to that melody forever ? ’
15 that , any cancellation she 'd ring me up .
16 ‘ I thought you 'd cheer me up ! ’
17 Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ?
18 ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella .
19 ‘ Or you could ring me up , could n't you ?
20 She used to look me up and down as if the Brownie uniform was really nothing to get excited about , and say smugly , ‘ Rainbows wear green Nuforms ! ’
21 Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout .
22 She used to ring me up , just to hear an adult voice that could talk . ’
23 If I did say something , perhaps she would gobble me up like the fox did to poor Chicken-Licken .
24 ‘ Perhaps you would help me up on deck ? ’ she ventured expectantly , adding with a bewitchingly brief smile , ‘ I 'd hoped to be alone for a while . ’
25 You would cheer me up , for you are ten years younger and at my age the years once again begin to tell . ’
26 See if you can zip me up . ’
27 ‘ You mean , to see if you can trip me up ! ’
28 What 's the latest you can wake me up like .
29 What 's the la , latest you can wake me up ?
30 ‘ All right , ’ she murmured , ‘ you can let me up now . ’
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