Example sentences of "him up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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
8 And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone .
9 This was to sharpen him up and get him fitter apparently .
10 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 .
11 ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum .
12 ‘ I simply rang him up and got you an evening off . ’
13 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 .
14 A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant .
15 When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement .
16 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
17 sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again ,
18 He reportedly said : ‘ I tied him up and killed him .
19 He 's very friendly toward people and usually lets anyone pick him up and stroke him , even when he 's eating .
20 ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home .
21 And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’
22 If anyone still has his number , they can ring him up and tell him so .
23 Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so .
24 He 'd only sustained minor injuries and the drummer had patched him up and given him a pair of free tickets for an anniversary concert in Tierra del Fuego .
25 Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman .
26 I heard you both the other day raising your voices , I think you stir him up and lead him on .
27 The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods .
28 He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him .
29 for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was
30 The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town .
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