Example sentences of "up [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember how Rosamund Coldharbour set you up for him in the matter of typing that sermon ? ’ |
| 2 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 3 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 4 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 5 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 6 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 7 | So now I have to put up with him on the boat . |
| 8 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 9 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 10 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 11 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 12 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 13 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 14 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 15 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 16 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 17 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 18 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 19 | ‘ When I check up on him in the morning he asks for you . |
| 20 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 21 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 22 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 23 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 24 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 25 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 26 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 27 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 29 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 30 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |