Example sentences of "[verb] him up [prep] [art] " 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 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 4 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 5 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 6 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 7 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 9 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 10 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 11 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 16 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 17 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 18 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 19 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 20 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 21 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 22 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 23 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 24 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 25 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 28 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 29 | It was behind him , lining him up in the sights . |
| 30 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |