Example sentences of "come up [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first .
2 If men with guns had come up to seize him , he 'd have cried out shamelessly in his terror .
3 If you were important enough you came up to see him .
4 Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt .
5 Freiburg airfield came up to meet him .
6 Her hand came up to strike him , but he was quicker , seizing her wrist .
7 He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark .
8 He also clearly likes the sensation of standing in line for a movie in LA and having admirers come up to congratulate him .
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