Example sentences of "would [verb] me up " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 2 | So I had a bath and I thought it 'd warm me up but I was , I was freezing were n't I ? |
| 3 | And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar . |
| 4 | They 'd ring me up and say , ‘ What 's the also ? ’ |
| 5 | that , any cancellation she 'd ring me up . |
| 6 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
| 7 | I said I 'd phone me up . |
| 8 | Oh he 'd pick me up at night , I see |
| 9 | ‘ I thought you 'd cheer me up ! ’ |
| 10 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 11 | The bus would catch me up about halfway . ’ |
| 12 | The guys would chat me up , y'know , like — [ imitating an African accent ] ‘ I want you to be my wife ’ — and I found it all really flattering . |
| 13 | I do not remember much about my father — just odd memories , like when he would lift me up on his horse and give me a ride . |
| 14 | Just as a kid he would lift me up on the m up on the er counter , you know and me I was born in and then we shifted to the bottom , you know that white house , I think it 's all offices now , in the the erm big gates of the cathedral . |
| 15 | Downs said : ‘ If I said what I really thought about the ref , they would lock me up and throw away the key . ’ |
| 16 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 17 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 18 | I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen . |
| 19 | I mean I ca n't in , I like to shut my door , I mean I do n't mind people coming to visit me but I could n't stand people in and out , in and out my house all day , that would crack me up . |
| 20 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 21 | That would take me up to seven in the evening , then I 'd break open a bottle of brandy and a bottle of port and mix them . ’ |
| 22 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If I was a player , those sort of comments would fire me up ’ |
| 24 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 25 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 26 | So in summary there are three , three little erm weights in the balance here as far as er as far as I 'm concerned , and all three weights in the balance would shut me up completely . |
| 27 | If I did say something , perhaps she would gobble me up like the fox did to poor Chicken-Licken . |
| 28 | Bernie said my sciatica would play me up and rule me out . |
| 29 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 30 | But er I wish some of the other tenants in this block would back me up and do something about it , but nobody will ! |