Example sentences of "him up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his letter posed as many questions as it answered , so I rang him up and asked him if he was willing to come and see me . |
| 2 | I picked him up and kissed him until the screaming changed to crying . |
| 3 | This was the creature which had picked him up and flown with him . |
| 4 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 5 | I think that Gary rang him up and said he was going to back to work , there 's only people starting work he 's giving some people some work . |
| 6 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 7 | and David phone him up and said will you take us up dad . |
| 8 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 9 | Jan picked him up and wiped his nose . |
| 10 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 11 | had to shake him up And make the fancy take him |
| 12 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 13 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 14 | I was to phone him up and arrange to meet him . |
| 15 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 16 | ‘ His alibi fell through , so they picked him up and ran the DNA test , it 's another match , statistically it can happen . ’ |
| 17 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 18 | Mr Shreeves said : ‘ Ray Clemence , our goalkeeping specialist , worked with Ian in training this morning to straighten him up and get his head up again . |
| 19 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |
| 20 | This was to sharpen him up and get him fitter apparently . |
| 21 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 22 | ‘ I simply rang him up and got you an evening off . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 24 | ‘ To just past Spargo 's ; I could n't raise the nerve to catch him up and speak to him . |
| 25 | It was as if someone had wound him up and released the key , like the spring of a watch . |
| 26 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 27 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 28 | But eventually he , he , he again when time we started and then he moved on to it , back on to declaration of intent , and they pulled him up and took . |
| 29 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 30 | Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get |