Example sentences of "him up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he goes she 's ke she 's beating him up under the chair she goes |
| 2 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 3 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 4 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 5 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 6 | His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point . |
| 7 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 8 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 9 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 10 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
| 11 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 12 | Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course . |
| 13 | The old man took Yanek by the hand , led him up to the castle door , and knocked . |
| 14 | Frank McAvennie , meanwhile , will today give his answer to the offer of a contract that will take him up to the end of the season and with the promise of a more substantial agreement if his progress is satisfactory . |
| 15 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 16 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |
| 17 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 18 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 19 | Her head throbbed as she walked beside him up to the château , and she was fighting a churning nausea deep within her . |
| 20 | The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room . |
| 21 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 22 | You might raise him up as a devil . ’ |
| 23 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 24 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 25 | The evening before , when the boy was buying a betel-leaf from a shop , the police had hauled him up as a vagabond ; they were responding to the jail authorities ' appeal to book more helpers … . |
| 26 | His uncle John , 72 , who brought him up as a son and taught him to play the guitar , has died of lung cancer . |
| 27 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 28 | They brought Sam here , Put him up for a year . |
| 29 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 30 | Maybe it would shut him up for a while . |