Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] me up " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you 're trying to trip me up . ’
2 ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ .
3 You 're trying to stand me up .
4 I was expecting the lads soon , anyway , as they were coming to pick me up if I had not arrived by lunch-time and it was noon already .
5 Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason .
6 This bloke they are trying to set me up with .
7 I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up .
8 someone is going to help me up
9 ‘ Nobody is going to kidnap me up here , ’ Richard told him , jumping off a boulder for joy .
10 ‘ I do n't think anything 's going to cheer me up , ’ said Scarlet .
11 He sticks it on his head and gives a big grin , like he 's trying to cheer me up .
12 She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up .
13 After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again
14 ‘ I realised no one was going to lock me up again .
15 In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country .
16 Mrs Pritchard was going to put me up . ’
17 ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up .
18 I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone .
19 You was trying to butter me up were n't you ?
20 When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train .
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