Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 2 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 3 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 4 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 5 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 6 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 7 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 8 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 9 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 10 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 11 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 12 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
| 13 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 14 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 15 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |