Example sentences of "[to-vb] he up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 2 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 3 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 4 | As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’ |
| 5 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 6 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 7 | I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later . |
| 8 | So much good did it do them to take him up to that heathen place in Naas . |
| 9 | He 'd beaten that habit out of her when she was a child , telling her he despised weakness in any form , and no child of his was going to show him up in public or private . |
| 10 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |