Example sentences of "[vb past] me up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 2 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 3 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 4 | And you can guarantee , he was on t' phone on Saturday , he phoned me up on Monday , he phoned me on Tuesday and said , now I remember what I wanted . |
| 5 | I span my Phazer round , the wave lifted me up towards God , and I rose to my feet . |
| 6 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |
| 7 | Eventually The Fat Controller pulled me up in front of a viciously scalped hedge of box . |
| 8 | John Morrison , the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , rang me up from Islay the next morning . |
| 9 | He rang me up from London . |
| 10 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 11 | Some of the people I interviewed became informants , who kept me up to date on those phases of West End life with which they were familiar . |
| 12 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 13 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 14 | I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week . |
| 15 | He stared at me for a moment , then very carefully , he picked me up with finger and thumb and looked at me . |
| 16 | And they picked me up in turn and gave me a kiss . |