Example sentences of "me up " in BNC.
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1 | He hauled me up to my tutor , who said , do you intend to marry the girl ? |
2 | The irony of my vision of the glass burning up the rest of the exhibits in the gallery in which it is housed , when here it is , burning up everything around it in this flat , burning me up . |
3 | The leg that had stopped the newspaper had borne me up . |
4 | ‘ Mummy 's on stage , you 're just in time to button me up . ’ |
5 | ‘ Be a pet and do me up , sweetie . |
6 | She stood for a moment on the other side of the room , sizing me up ( and me sizing her up ) , and then she came over to speak to me . |
7 | He put me up in a hostel , but it was filthy and I … , |
8 | That cheered me up a bit . |
9 | I thought back over all the good times — all the laughs we had shared — and all the wonderful things they had done to try to build me up and keep me going . |
10 | Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ? |
11 | I did n't know what to say , so I just held out my hand and she heaved me up . |
12 | ‘ Someone will remember to wake me up early tomorrow , wo n't they ? ’ |
13 | Mother I do n't need — the one who brought me up cost a lot in therapy to get over . |
14 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
15 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
16 | Then she added , — Sheila can put me up until I find a place . |
17 | She picked me up and held me in front of her face . |
18 | The man picked me up , roughly , and hurt me . |
19 | She came to pick me up . |
20 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
21 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
22 | I holed a good putt for a birdie at the first hole and that set me up , ’ she said . |
23 | I 'll tell you , that really screwed me up that Christmas Day . |
24 | We had n't spoken to each other since Sid woke me up , just before the shelling started . |
25 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
26 | They 'd ring me up and say , ‘ What 's the also ? ’ |
27 | He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve . |
28 | He still calls me up now and again . |
29 | Before he came along we 'd mess around with songs like ‘ Build Me Up Buttercup ’ , with me fiddling around on a little clavinet that we 'd found knocking around somewhere and Steve singing . |
30 | Is this what life is for , is this why my parents brought me up with so much love and care ? |