Example sentences of "[vb -s] him up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 2 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 3 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 4 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 5 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |