Example sentences of "him up and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his letter posed as many questions as it answered , so I rang him up and asked him if he was willing to come and see me . |
| 2 | I picked him up and kissed him until the screaming changed to crying . |
| 3 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 4 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 5 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 6 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 7 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |
| 8 | This was to sharpen him up and get him fitter apparently . |
| 9 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 10 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 11 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 12 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 13 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 14 | Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get |
| 15 | sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again , |
| 16 | He reportedly said : ‘ I tied him up and killed him . |
| 17 | He 's very friendly toward people and usually lets anyone pick him up and stroke him , even when he 's eating . |
| 18 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
| 19 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 20 | If anyone still has his number , they can ring him up and tell him so . |
| 21 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 22 | He 'd only sustained minor injuries and the drummer had patched him up and given him a pair of free tickets for an anniversary concert in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 23 | Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman . |
| 24 | I heard you both the other day raising your voices , I think you stir him up and lead him on . |
| 25 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |
| 26 | He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him . |
| 27 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
| 28 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 29 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 30 | Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves . |