Example sentences of "had [verb] him up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 2 | Yanto had picked him up from his home ten minutes before , and they were now racing down the A38 towards Bristol on their first outing on the bike . |
| 3 | The evening before , when the boy was buying a betel-leaf from a shop , the police had hauled him up as a vagabond ; they were responding to the jail authorities ' appeal to book more helpers … . |
| 4 | Now , you may remember when we inspected his corpse , we noticed the water had soaked him up to his knees ? ’ |
| 5 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 6 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |
| 7 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 8 | Stephanie saw Marcus , as though they had called him up by naming him , making his way home . |
| 9 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 10 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 11 | He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast . |
| 12 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 13 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 14 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 15 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
| 16 | She doubted if Williams were a major player — even on the telephone , he sounded a loser — but at least he might tell her who had put him up to it . |
| 17 | It was Elspeth who had put him up to it . |
| 18 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 19 | Men had beaten him up on several occasions , for no apparent reason . |
| 20 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 21 | His frequent visits to North Korea since 1971 had kept him up to date with the progress of the reconstruction of Pyongyang under the Kims , father and son . |