Example sentences of "him up and [verb] [pron] " 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 | Jan picked him up and wiped his nose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |
| 11 | This was to sharpen him up and get him fitter apparently . |
| 12 | Mr Shreeves said : ‘ Ray Clemence , our goalkeeping specialist , worked with Ian in training this morning to straighten him up and get his head up again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 15 | ‘ I simply rang him up and got you an evening off . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 18 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | sleep while he was like that so I picked him up and took him back downstairs again , |
| 21 | He reportedly said : ‘ I tied him up and killed him . |
| 22 | He 's very friendly toward people and usually lets anyone pick him up and stroke him , even when he 's eating . |
| 23 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
| 24 | 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 — ’ |
| 25 | If anyone still has his number , they can ring him up and tell him so . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman . |
| 29 | I heard you both the other day raising your voices , I think you stir him up and lead him on . |
| 30 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |