Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] me up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Kay could take me up bingo I ai n't worried . |
| 2 | ‘ While the play was on I would get home in the early hours of the morning and then Maisie would wake me up really early . |
| 3 | ‘ The paper 's editor will back me up . |
| 4 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 5 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 6 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was young , people used to call me up , messin' with me , tell me my father 'd been killed . |
| 8 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 9 | But er I wish some of the other tenants in this block would back me up and do something about it , but nobody will ! |
| 10 | ‘ If I was a player , those sort of comments would fire me up ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She did say as quickly as possible — Brian will pick me up at the station . |
| 12 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 13 | The bus would catch me up about halfway . ’ |
| 14 | The guys would chat me up , y'know , like — [ imitating an African accent ] ‘ I want you to be my wife ’ — and I found it all really flattering . |
| 15 | I wonder if the doc can patch me up too — he 's my mate , he is ! |
| 16 | And mum , and Emma used to pick me up from school , primary school , and I was like , always last out . |
| 17 | I ca n't carry equipment for a youth club on my bicycle , so Paul used to pick me up in his car . ’ |
| 18 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 19 | Bernie said my sciatica would play me up and rule me out . |
| 20 | So basically what happens is Mike Rutherford will ring me up after they 've done the album and sent me a tape . |
| 21 | Then she added , — Sheila can put me up until I find a place . |
| 22 | So in summary there are three , three little erm weights in the balance here as far as er as far as I 'm concerned , and all three weights in the balance would shut me up completely . |
| 23 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |