Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] him up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed . |
| 2 | A good caddie also has to be something of a psychologist , knowing when to cajole his player into making a better effort ; calming him down when he 's just three-putted or blazed a drive into the rough ; or steadying him up from being over-confident or over-zealous when the adrenalin is flowing after a couple of good holes . |
| 3 | Often clients think they know best and have the trade publication editor to lunch or ring him up with titbits and gossip . |
| 4 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 5 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 6 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 7 | The final humiliation came when Branson and Draper flew out to Munich to see Oldfield perform in concert and bring him up to date on the current situation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 11 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 12 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 13 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 14 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 15 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 18 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |
| 19 | Nick said , and Frederick roared with laughter and swung him up on his shoulder and ran with him along the railway line as if he weighed nothing . |
| 20 | And the wind took him up pony and all , and plumped him up against the hedge . ’ |
| 21 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 22 | ‘ Martinez pulled him out of the Hi-Flight contract and signed him up with Supersight . ’ |
| 23 | His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point . |
| 24 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 25 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 26 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 27 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 28 | Blanche rolled her erstwhile lover on to his chest , untangled the flex from his left glove and tied him up with his hands and feet behind him . |
| 29 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 30 | Paul 's in a meeting , but she 's going to try and pick him up on the way , or leave a note for him to follow on . |