Example sentences of "[vb past] he up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 2 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 3 | ‘ Martinez pulled him out of the Hi-Flight contract and signed him up with Supersight . ’ |
| 4 | Though the journey from Godolphin 's house in Primrose Hill to the Tabula Rasa 's Tower was short , and Dowd got him up to Highgate on the dot of six , Oscar suggested they drive down through Crouch End then up through Muswell Hill and back to the Tower , so that they 'd arrive ten minutes late . |
| 5 | so we just dosed him up on Calpol |
| 6 | My friend Jim 's wife is in America and my other pal 's had his heart broken by a hard-hearted woman with a background like yours , who passed him up in favour of an arranged marriage . ’ |
| 7 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 8 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 9 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | I took him up to Toftingall , attached a long rope to his collar , waded out , placed him afloat and then hauled him ashore , head first . |
| 12 | So we took him up to Fountains Abbey ( one of Britain 's most famous monastic ruins ) . |
| 13 | Later , when I felt that he could do with even more experience than he hid got at Warboys , I sent him up to RAF Grantham which at that time was training navigators . |
| 14 | sent him up to Ron and he was saying God , he thought ! |
| 15 | They sent him up to Westlands to earn some money because they could n't pay him much . |
| 16 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 17 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 18 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 19 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 20 | ‘ I patched him up in record time by the roadside . |