Example sentences of "[pron] up and [verb] him " in BNC.
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1 | Evans has admitted buying petrol that night , but says White attacked the couple , tied them up and forced him and Sheila Stroud to drive to the clifftop . |
2 | As he drew closer and they came face to face , she drew herself up and eyed him coldly . |
3 | But his letter posed as many questions as it answered , so I rang him up and asked him if he was willing to come and see me . |
4 | I picked him up and kissed him until the screaming changed to crying . |
5 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
8 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
9 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |
10 | This was to sharpen him up and get him fitter apparently . |
11 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
12 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
13 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
14 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
15 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
16 | Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get |
17 | sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again , |
18 | He reportedly said : ‘ I tied him up and killed him . |
19 | He 's very friendly toward people and usually lets anyone pick him up and stroke him , even when he 's eating . |
20 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
21 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
22 | If anyone still has his number , they can ring him up and tell him so . |
23 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
24 | He 'd only sustained minor injuries and the drummer had patched him up and given him a pair of free tickets for an anniversary concert in Tierra del Fuego . |
25 | Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman . |
26 | I heard you both the other day raising your voices , I think you stir him up and lead him on . |
27 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |
28 | He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him . |
29 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
30 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |