Example sentences of "[verb] he up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 2 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 3 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 5 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 6 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 7 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 8 | Why do n't you come up here for a week or two and I 'll show you how to knit a string bag to put hubby in then you can hang him up with the onions . |
| 9 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 10 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 11 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 12 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 13 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 14 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 15 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 16 | It was behind him , lining him up in the sights . |
| 17 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 18 | Take this mutinous dog , hang him up from the yard arm , stripe him with the cat , douse him with salt , and when he comes to , flog him some more . ’ |
| 19 | Lock him up under the stairs . |
| 20 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 21 | I was going to ring him up tonight gon na ring him up after the |
| 22 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
| 23 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 24 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 25 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 26 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 27 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 28 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 29 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 30 | And the wind took him up pony and all , and plumped him up against the hedge . ’ |