Example sentences of "he up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 2 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 3 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 4 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I used to wake him up in the night saying : ‘ I 'm never going to give you a baby — what 's wrong with me ? |
| 6 | When he was a lad they used to tie him up in the cellar , starve him for days and read the Bible to him as food for his soul . |
| 7 | No , I called him up in the week , in the holiday and I asked him to come to Shelley 's and he said call me back . |
| 8 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe we could fix him up in the county home , ’ he said thoughtfully after some reflection . |
| 10 | Train him up in the role of agent provocateur ? ’ |
| 11 | It was behind him , lining him up in the sights . |
| 12 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 13 | Felix wrapped him up in the duffle-coat . |
| 14 | If that was Zeno 's move too , Pascoe might intercept him ; if not , it would bottle him up in the boatyard . |