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 . |