Example sentences of "he up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lock him up under the stairs . |
| 2 | And he goes she 's ke she 's beating him up under the chair she goes |
| 3 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 4 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 5 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 6 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 7 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 8 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
| 9 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 10 | Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course . |
| 11 | The old man took Yanek by the hand , led him up to the castle door , and knocked . |
| 12 | Frank McAvennie , meanwhile , will today give his answer to the offer of a contract that will take him up to the end of the season and with the promise of a more substantial agreement if his progress is satisfactory . |
| 13 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 14 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |
| 15 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 16 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 17 | Her head throbbed as she walked beside him up to the château , and she was fighting a churning nausea deep within her . |
| 18 | The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room . |
| 19 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 20 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 21 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 22 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 25 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 26 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 27 | Shall we put him up with the others ? ’ |
| 28 | Why do n't you come up here for a week or two and I 'll show you how to knit a string bag to put hubby in then you can hang him up with the onions . |
| 29 | Yes , why did you pick him up with the cart ? |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps we can cheer him up with the news that he 'll only be on the ward for a couple of days . |