Example sentences of "they [verb] me up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 2 | And we had some friends there and one day one of them rang me up and she said , could , could we come quickly we 've got a , a monitor lizard in the garden ? |
| 3 | Get them to call me up . |
| 4 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 5 | Oh yeah I tell you what , cartoons are absolute , they crack me up cinema ? |
| 6 | They crack me up , they crack me up . |
| 7 | They crack me up , they crack me up . |
| 8 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 9 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 10 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 11 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 12 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 13 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 14 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 15 | six o'clock in the morning they wake me up time ! |
| 16 | in the morning , they wake me up at six o'clock in the morning ! |
| 17 | They set me up as a target . |
| 18 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 19 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 20 | They ring me up and say , , all we have is ten boxes to go , er , to all those different places , here 's all the addresses , thanks love , bye . |
| 21 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 22 | they saw our house Friday , and they rang me up , and I said look , you know , I 've got , I 've got my exams today and I really do n't want to come up unless you see something , if you do , I will come up because they reckon it 's a joint effort , if we 're gon na live together , we 've all got to see it and make a contribution to looking at the house . |
| 23 | So anyway , they rang me up Friday night , and said , oh , seen this house , it 's lovely and really nice . |
| 24 | They tied me up , ransacked the house and burnt our grain store . |
| 25 | Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply . |
| 26 | And they brought me up . |
| 27 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 28 | I phoned the police and they arrested him , then they took me up there . |
| 29 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 30 | And I got the job of going up Then they sent me up knocking th knocking the wagons off . |