Example sentences of "[vb pp] him up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly .
2 A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five .
3 His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation .
4 He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway .
5 I suspected that Kim sitting on his lap like that had perked him up no end .
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