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 . |