Example sentences of "he up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five . |
| 2 | ‘ No , they be taking him up the churchyard to see if ‘ e likes it . ’ |
| 3 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 4 | him up the tree ! |
| 5 | Her mind in a whirl , her body in an equally unstable condition , Robbie followed him up the hillside . |
| 6 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 7 | He went there , he shook hands , he 'd shake hands with a vulture if he thought he could get him up the pedestal , but that 's neither here , something was done . |
| 8 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 9 | Peter did not look at her as she walked towards him up the chancel : he stood waiting , holding the paten , the first moonlike communion wafer ready between finger and thumb . |
| 10 | K ! sdra squinted at him up the length of the sword . |
| 11 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 12 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |
| 13 | Gary brought him up the hospital to meet me he would n't speak to any of the nurses |
| 14 | He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function , and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move . |
| 15 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 16 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 17 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 18 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 19 | ‘ I kicked him up the backside , ’ smiles Gray at the memory of their clash on a London soccer pitch when they were both 13-year-old ragamuffins . |
| 20 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 21 | Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed . |
| 22 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 23 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 24 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 25 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 26 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |