Example sentences of "him up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lock him up under the stairs . |
| 2 | And he goes she 's ke she 's beating him up under the chair she goes |
| 3 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 4 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 5 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 6 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 9 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 10 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |
| 11 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 12 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 13 | The old man took Yanek by the hand , led him up to the castle door , and knocked . |
| 14 | Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course . |
| 15 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 16 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 17 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 18 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 19 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
| 20 | Her head throbbed as she walked beside him up to the château , and she was fighting a churning nausea deep within her . |
| 21 | The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room . |
| 22 | Frank McAvennie , meanwhile , will today give his answer to the offer of a contract that will take him up to the end of the season and with the promise of a more substantial agreement if his progress is satisfactory . |
| 23 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 24 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 25 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 26 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 27 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 28 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 29 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 30 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |