Example sentences of "up and [verb] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was to phone him up and arrange to meet him . |
| 2 | A man came up and offered to buy him a drink . |
| 3 | She went over and helped him up and offered to buy him breakfast which , after a lot of persuasion , he accepted . |
| 4 | And on the very day when she had woken up and decided to divorce him , to celebrate the fact that she finally had a life of her own ; a life which did n't include Julius Landor . |
| 5 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 6 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 7 | Robyn hastily sat up , watched with horrified fascination as Luke dragged Callum 's limp body up and prepared to hit him once again . |
| 8 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |
| 9 | ‘ Two policemen came running up and tried to grab him but he was stabbing furiously at them . |
| 10 | Then Noah got up and started to kick him from behind . |
| 11 | Henry jumps up and tries to steer him away . |