Example sentences of "up [prep] him [prep] [art] " 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 | Rooks streamed up towards him from a small area of woodland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This seems to suggest an assailant unknown to him coming up behind him with a weapon in the right hand , holding him round the neck with the left arm ( fabric traces in the teeth ) to prevent him shouting . |
| 7 | Photographs of the period show a grinning Duke with his ten-foot board looming up behind him like a tall wooden tombstone , his name engraved on the deck like an epitaph . |
| 8 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I probably wo n't catch up with him for an hour or more , but when I do , people will be astounded to learn his identity . ’ |
| 11 | MALCOLM ALLISON has advised Bristol Rovers to bring in Manchester City coach Tony Book to link up with him as a joint managerial team . |
| 12 | So now I have to put up with him on the boat . |
| 13 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 14 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 15 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 19 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 20 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 21 | His post as chief executive more or less folded up under him in a wholesale shake-up of staff . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Anger bubbled up inside him like a clean spring ; he shouted , thumped the kitchen table with his fist until the dirty cups and saucers danced . |
| 24 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 27 | ‘ When I check up on him in the morning he asks for you . |
| 28 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 29 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 30 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |