Example sentences of "me up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you intend tying me up and locking me in my room ? ’ |
| 2 | What if , like my poor neighbour , I was to be so riddled with cancer , that after cutting me open , they just sewed me up and sent me home ? |
| 3 | The wind picks me up and pushes me in front of it like an irate mother with a naughty child . |
| 4 | The title of Tie Me Up and Bind Me Robin was derived from a quote from Maid Marion in the wholly innocent 1955 series Robin Hood . |
| 5 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He rang me up and said he was feeling lousy and could I look up his chart . |
| 8 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 9 | No spare parts were available but a small bus-load of Indian servants from our diocesan girls ’ school in Rangoon picked me up and took me on with them . |
| 10 | Mrs Mrs rang me up and ask me about the one |
| 11 | They 're gon na phone me up and tell me when it 's so |
| 12 | ‘ After missing the P-38 , a friend in Fresno , California rang me up and told me of a Corsair that was being advertised for sale in the American journal Trade-a-Plane . |
| 13 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 14 | Jim phoned me up and told me , he was like upset . |
| 15 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 16 | Now erm I think it is and he rang me up and asked me would the strike still be on in the middle of er February . |
| 17 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 18 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 19 | Another time , the dwarf picked me up and dropped me quickly into a bowl of milk on the table . |
| 20 | As I came in , Marcus scooped me up and hugged me : blah blah Killer blah blah blah ! |
| 21 | ring me up and asking I understand you Anyway to cut a long story short , he was basically saying well do you know of any computers ? |
| 22 | She picked me up and held me in front of her face . |
| 23 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 24 | Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’ |
| 25 | I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room . |
| 26 | He did n't , he picked me up and threw me against the van and ran off . |
| 27 | Tip me up and pour me out ( bend at the waist in a tipping motion ) |
| 28 | So she caught me up and turned me round , feeling my load from top to bottom and every side . |
| 29 | He picked me up and turned me upside-down . |
| 30 | Bernie said my sciatica would play me up and rule me out . |